Porch Pesto: Urban Gardening

Food has always been important to me. Happiness is sitting together around any table sharing a meal and stories. A glass of wine, fresh water, coffee to linger, talking through the night. My mother taught me when someone was ill, take them a pot of soup, because a...

The Seattle Sun Still Shines

Bruce and I have been self-isolating in our apartment since March 16, two days before Governor Jay Inslee ordered Washingtonians to stay at home after the coronavirus outbreak shut down Seattle. Fifty days and counting. The stay-at-home order will be lifted at the end...

Seattle Sky Every Day

The bluest skies you’ve ever seen are in Seattle, and the hills the greenest green…Perry Como, 1969, Seattle* It’s been a year since we left Montana and moved to Seattle. Everything is different here, including the sky. Our Idaho-born neighbor told us that the trouble...

Mary Lawlor O’Hara June 19, 1944 – Dec. 14, 2018

I  published my book Planets & Passages, Tales of a Blacktop Gypsy late November 2018. My best friend, Mary Lawlor O’Hara, telephoned me on my birthday, as she always did, one week after publication. She wasn’t feeling well. In fact, she had just had a heart...

It’s Goodbye to Old Montana

The house on the hill stands empty, her windows dark, save one, the red and golden stained-glass cactus rose, glowing in late-day autumn sun. Twenty-seven years, as the first deep snow of winter fell, we moved into our hand-built house on the hill. There was no glass...