Category: Random

Me talkin to myself

  • An artist you’ll want to meet

    It’s whimsy, OK? But it’s more than that. We stumbled on Stan Peterson’s work by accident, when a road trip we planned didn’t pan out and we needed a new destination. So. We’re lying on a blanket under a shady tree in Spokane’s Riverfront Park (wonderful, surprising, must-be-visited). We’re bummed because we can’t proceed to…

  • Nia dance instructor Dael Parsons gave me a gift, a method of being more fully myself. Her strategy — simply noticing what was happening with her students, then gently guiding — was what I needed. I walked into her dance class almost seven years ago. Newly retired, I had become the boss of all my…

  • The Blue Mountains: wider than I knew

    Two-laners all the way. They make the best kind of road trip, and I am building my preference list one journey at a time. My current favorite, the daylong run from Eugene to Baker City. You motor up through the Willamette National Forest, skirting the shimmering McKenzie River and over the spine of the Cascades…