So... I'm going to be back in orange again. And this time it's not going to be picking up trash along the freeway as penance---I just landed a job as a Home Depot cashier. There's a tiny part of me that wonders if I shouldn't sigh and shake my head at myself, past forty with a … Continue reading An Empowered Shade of Orange
Jesus Meets a Harley-Riding Rabbit
Regardless of what the retail-store displays would have us believe, Easter really isn't about chocolate, baskets, or long-eared hopping mammals. Nevertheless, our church chooses to host an "Easter Eggstravaganza" for the neighborhood, staged in the park right behind the church. It's part of our mission to reach out to the neighborhood, and be a presence. It's not intended … Continue reading Jesus Meets a Harley-Riding Rabbit
What Paper Plates are For
There's a TV ad for an antidepressant that features a paper plate on a popsicle-stick handle with a smiley face sketched on it... Various people are holding it up in front of their faces, which (behind the paper-plate-smiles) are unhappy, disengaged, or entirely expressionless. That ad speaks not only to the experience of Depression, but also to … Continue reading What Paper Plates are For
Like a (Dry-Docked) Sailboat: RV Living
Because I'm a sailboat skipper, I'm amused by RV terminology that borrows from the marine arena. Like the "shore cord"---the cord we plug in at an RV park to power the rig's electrical system. On a sailboat a shore cord (which you'd plug in at the dock when you stay in a marina) makes sense---it … Continue reading Like a (Dry-Docked) Sailboat: RV Living
Life, and Death. And Life.
Life in Idaho... I've been practicing my fly-fishing cast out in the road behind our RV, aiming to land my fly on a paper plate. Jon has been out with me, working on technique--and he'll take me to try it on water once I'm hitting that plate regularly. (We picked up our three-year hunting-and-fishing licenses … Continue reading Life, and Death. And Life.
Sucked In
Oh my gosh, where have I been since my last post? Sucked In, that's where. I got sucked into reading the "Game of Thrones" series... I haven't been able to put this thing down for some reason. I bought it a couple years ago as a boxed set (if you can call e-books "boxed"), and … Continue reading Sucked In
Flood in the Desert
Supposedly, I live in a "high desert" climate. Well, I do live in a high desert climate--but you sure wouldn't know it this year. I just pulled up an article from January, stating that Boise had (already) seen more snow-so-far than any year since 1892, when they started keeping records. And we kept getting more snow---a … Continue reading Flood in the Desert
Kana's Chronicles 