Music and Cats

Tonight was the reading for the students in the memoir writing classes that I just finished at the UW Extension Writers Program. For the reading, I reworked a piece that I wrote early in the year. Before taking this class, I had trouble writing multiple drafts. My teacher, Laura Kalpakian, and my classmates have, through […]

For many musicians, dancers and craftspeople in the Pacific Northwest, Memorial Day Weekend is all about Seattle’s Northwest Folklife Festival. Begun in 1972, the original festival’s concept was to provide a public forum where the traditional and ethnic communities and artists of the Northwest Region of the National Park Service (Alaska, Washington, Oregon, Idaho, and […]

I am a princess… and, yes, you may pet me. Oh, no, I insist.
More cats - and other lesser animals - at the Friday Ark.

Today’s New York Daily News has news women can use:
It’s a go for ‘potty parity’By Frank Lombardi, Daily News City Hall Bureau
There were signs of relief - especially from the ladies - yesterday after the City Council unanimously passed a long-awaited “potty parity” bill.
New buildings and buildings undergoing major renovations will be required to install […]

As I wrote elsewhere last year, Paul and I spent our first two wedding anniversaries out of the country, the first in Italy and the second in Canada. We joked after the second trip that we would leave the country each year for our anniversary, but events - some chosen, others forced upon us - […]