At last month’s “Author Readings” in Ilwaco, I met Coral Hughes, a born-again Peninsulan, who read a fun piece about the weather here on the southwest Washington coast. I liked it so much I decided to give her my space today. Reprinted with permission, Coral writes: I...
“Back in the day,” we had two presidential birthdays to celebrate in February, both of which gave us the day off from school: Lincoln’s on the 12th, and Washington’s on the 22nd. Then in 1968 some government wiseasses decided they wanted another three-day weekend, and...
As a general rule, women appreciate Valentine’s Day, and men don’t. I think the reason men don’t appreciate it is because there’s no football game on TV that day. I read the above paragraph to a male friend of mine. He didn’t laugh. I read it to several female friends...
On Day 21 of this year, I encouraged you to keep going on your New Year’s health and fitness resolutions, and if you had already broken them, to immediately start again. So here it is, 21 days later, and I’m wondering if you were successful in “staying the course”...
I was reading an article in a magazine about a month ago that showed how to do some simple yoga exercises. At least the pictures and descriptions looked simple enough. And the article said that Jennifer Aniston did this very routine, and since I wouldn’t mind looking...
