We live in a house perched atop a hill right above the Puget Sound. Our 180 degree view of islands and sea is stunning, and serves as a waterway for all kinds of pleasure craft as well as barges and...

In midlife, sometimes anxiety like a vice grip, comes to crush you. Overwhelm like an ocean swell, looms large... reminding you of all that’s undone, imperfect, incomplete, in disarray, off track. The ‘whys?’ pile up, the pat answers aren’t working,...

I am a Homemaker. This means that most of my time the past 37 years has been spent making a home. Today I’ve refreshed my to-do lists, planned more meals, spot cleaned carpets, vacuumed, refilled all the stuff everyone needs...

Today my son texted to say he would be at my door soon. I assumed he must need something as he leaves tomorrow on an important business trip, and I’m always at the ready with a stocked fridge, natural remedies,...