Yesterday hit me like a ton of bricks. I knew I'd be thinking of my sister Jeanie as I had been all week long, but in the morning, I could hardly manage to get myself out of bed. Yesterday marked three years since Jeanie breathed her last breath. I slept [...]
It is 7:32 pm. I sit in full sunlight, one week post-solstice in Ocean Shores, Washington at our home and sanctuary, Little Renaissance. I have the last load of laundry in the wash and am sitting outside, basking in the last of today's sun as it starts to disappear over [...]
This Summer Solstice morning brings us abundant sunshine and a flock of goldfinches here at Ocean Shores. Earlier, I was sitting at my desk and, below in the garden, I heard the gravel crunching, as it does when someone is walking around outside. I imagined Rick out there admiring the [...]
I hiked Lake Annette (also known as Annette Lake) with Leslie and her new dog, Winnie. This was the first time I met Winnie and she is absolutely perfect. I fell in love with her immediately. Winnie is a year and a half old and Leslie adopted her 16 days [...]
We are experiencing an unusually warm June here in Northwest Washington, so today Rick and I went on a beautiful hike to Lake Twenty Two. Neither of us had ever been on this hike before, but our friends Don and Jim went on this hike last week and told us [...]
