My sister and I used to play the Milton-Bradley board game Life, moving a plastic car along the predetermined path (adding pink or blue pegs to represent spouse and kids), and marking the "mileposts" of American living by paying or collecting money for various events. I suppose this game is intended to represent how life is "supposed" … Continue reading “Life”—a Revised Edition
Tag: Sail & Sea
Full Circle: At the Wheel
Dad took me car-shopping my Senior year of high school, explaining that although he'd drive the new car for a while, it was intended eventually for my use. I pictured myself in a Jeep Cherokee: four-wheel-drive, room in the back for dive gear and camping kit, a rack on top for my parents' old orange canoe, and plenty of under-carriage … Continue reading Full Circle: At the Wheel
Our Little Patch of Plantation
The current buzz-word for this practice is Urban Homesteading, but "urban" doesn't quite describe us. Our little place isn't within the city limits of any town (and if it were, even Idaho's capital city barely qualifies as "urban")... Perhaps in our case we should call it "backyard homesteading," or just plain "turning-a-regular-home-into-a-mini-farm." Whatever you choose … Continue reading Our Little Patch of Plantation
Summer, Synchronicity, Sewage, Stones, & Super-Powers
My "Radio Silence" over the last week is (I'm happy to say) the result of having been quite thoroughly engrossed in the activities of a first-week-of-summer-holidays with the kids... I started to write a few times, but never got as far as hitting "Publish," so here it is, all at once...Sat, June 2: Summer Holidays, … Continue reading Summer, Synchronicity, Sewage, Stones, & Super-Powers
Food-Stamp Kitchen Chemistry #1: Jewelry Cleaner
I don't know the original source of this newspaper clipping, which I found (wouldn't you know) on Pinterest, but it speaks to some of my own feelings about tattoos. I consider my own tattoos as my permanent "accessories," or "jewelry" with stories... Though (despite my love of sailing) I hope they won't be put to … Continue reading Food-Stamp Kitchen Chemistry #1: Jewelry Cleaner
hoMAge
Mother's Day cards just don't cover it. There's not a one on the market that's sufficient to express my thoughts about the awesome Lady who made me. She's fully that (a Lady, that is) when she has a mind to be, having grown up in days when her Girl Scout uniform included white gloves and a girdle... … Continue reading hoMAge
A Pilgrimage of Perspective
Tricia Mitchell just posted a lovely blog about the castle in Heidelberg, Germany--accompanied by some of her own photos and memories of this castle over the years, and posing the question of whether her readers had memories to share. I wrote to her that although it's been almost three decades since I've been there (and although I … Continue reading A Pilgrimage of Perspective
Kana's Chronicles 