Today marks the winter solstice in the northern hemisphere. The word solstice comes from the Latin sol (sun) and sistere (to stand still). If you want to get picky, the actual solstice itself lasts only about a second, but we use the term to refer to the entire day....
Someone once asked me if I aimed to be the Perle Mesta of the West Coast. Of course, I had to immediately google Perle Mesta before I could respond appropriately. Lest you forget, Perle Mesta was most noted for her parties, which brought together senators,...
This year’s new-fangled electronic high-demand Christmas “toy” really drives a dagger into my heart. And it’s not because I’m over 50, although I could wax nostalgic here and reminisce about playing board games like Monopoly or Chutes and Ladders or Clue without too...
On December 2, I was interviewed by Donna Quinn on KMUN radio in Astoria. While I thought we would be talking only about the process of writing and publishing my new “Just Joshin’” book, her questions were much more far-ranging than I expected. In the space of a half...
When I began this blog, a full 13 months and 170 entries ago, my main intention was to promote my life coaching business. But along the way, I began writing about most anything that appealed to me at the moment. Which is all well and good, but the original intention,...
