Poetry in motion

April 28th I led an “Authors’ Readings” group at the Olde Towne Trading Post in Ilwaco. Since it was National Poetry Month, I had issued the call for closet poets to come on out and read their verses. Twenty-three attended the gathering. Fourteen read poetry. Everyone...

It’s cooler in the cellar

A recent article in USA Today took my beloved Seattle Mariners to task, stating that only three players had batting averages greater than their weight. So of course I looked it up. Leading off, my darling (and extremely lean) Ichiro bats .348. My new favorite center...

If I’ve told you once, I’ve told you 250 times!

Well, here we are. Blog entry number 250. So what have we learned? When I began writing this blog, in January 2009, the intention was at least three-fold: to promote Daybreak Solutions, my life coaching business, to “educate the masses” about the awesome power of the...

Front porch meditation

“Back in the day,” we had a whole row of light lavender lilac bushes growing along the tall wooden fence in the backyard. I used to burrow underneath the heart-shaped leaves to sit with my back against the fence, reading a mystery novel and immersing myself in the...

Going green by glowing red

There’s good news and there’s bad news. The bad news is that traversing the land mines of menopause really sucks. Sleeping no more than an hour and a half at a time and waking up totally “on fire” is not conducive to any type of daytime functional existence. “Cooling...