The 2024 election is over, more or less – with a number of seats in the House of Representatives still to be decided. But it’s clear Donald Trump will be the next President of the United States – only being…

Perhaps the most famous bear in the Rockies was killed Tuesday night (October 22, 2024).  Grizzly 399, a female, was beloved and admired by many over the many years of her life. She was 28 years old – a long…

The first of the autumn storms came through last week – temporarily dusting the Cascades and Olympics with a bit of snow. The changing weather pattern has also brought temperatures down in the lowlands – with the first frost expected…

  Only those who went through Navy Nuclear Power School, Naval Nuclear Prototype Training, and then prepared for, and went through annual Operational Reactor Safeguards Exams (ORSE), can understand.  

The first of the autumn storms is forecast to arrive in the Northwest this week.  These storms typically bring in wind and rain in the lowlands, and snow in the mountains; and in most years, they mark the start of…

I’ve been giving a good deal of thought about 2024 being the 50th anniversary of my college graduation, which also marked the start of my life’s big adventures. But as I learned over a number of years, an excess of…

“All my means are sane, my motive and my object mad.” Captain Ahab’s words, spoken for him by Ishmael, the narrator of Herman Melville’s 1851 novel, explain his quest for Moby-Dick, the white whale. Soon after leaving Nantucket Island, Ahab…

I’ve been going to the same barber/hair stylist for 35 years. Through relationships, health issues, and other life adventures, Richard and I have shared a lot of the journey together. Through much of that time, Richard and his wife Christina…

Edited on 9/2/2024 – received word of the death of Joe Ravas, whose death in June was not known before today One of the things my father told me when he was in his mid-seventies was that he spent a…

I mentioned in my last post I was going to ignore the 2024 election as much as possible. It is difficult with the deluge of emails, postal mail, radio and television advertising, and perhaps skywriting at some point. But sanity…