Mountain Me

Late summer, the final week, and we finally got a mini vacation.  My husband, son and I went to Pacific City / Cape Kiwanda Oregon.  Now, I ...

Monday morning when I took the dog out it was 42 degrees.  I actually put on my puffy down jacket.  The leaves are changing in the hills.  W...

Yeah, yeah, I know it's only August but it's been HOT and smokey and the neighbors are getting restless.  We are all starting to THI...

31 years ago today, my mom, who was 57 at the time, passed away.  31 years, that's over 11,315 days, and I have thought about her and mi...

I did try to give up coffee.  Really I did try.  I made it almost a month but honestly, I never popped out of that zombie stage and went thr...

I've been thinking a lot about what summer means and what makes summer feel like SUMMER.  So here's my list of things, sort of the m...

Every summer I pick a pile of books and get reading.  I give myself a guideline of choosing one book from 5 different categories:  bestselle...