Too bad my visit here with Kathryn is so short! Honestly, it will be hard to leave here tomorrow. We went on a long walk today, enjoying the lovely neighborhoods, State Street, and the wharves and beach. We had a nice lunch at Opal's and will go out again for [...]
Yesterday, after teaching one early morning class at St. Joe's, I took off for Santa Barbara with my friend, Kathryn. I helped Kathryn get her gorgeous, gentle, large, exotic spotted Bengal kitties here safely. This was a much bigger job than either of us could have imagined. Overall, it went [...]
It's been a while since my last blog entry! In an odd way, I feel thankful for the Snow Storm last week. It shut down the city for three days and gave many of us a chance to chill out. Rick and I took long walks and admired our neighborhood [...]
It's been a fun Snow Day in Seattle. Even Seattle Central Community College closed campus for the day as the city hunkered down, waiting for what was to possibly be Seattle's heaviest snowfall on record! So both Rick and I had the day off! Snowmageddon didn't seem to happen [...]
Nonviolence means avoiding not only external physical violence but also internal violence of spirit. You not only refuse to shoot a man, but you refuse to hate him. - Martin Luther King, Jr. - I find myself drawn to people of amazing courage. I read about them, I study them, [...]