Spiritual Smart Aleck

Hospital District: “The same care my Golder Retriever gets.” Medical care on Vashon-Maury Islands is not what it used to be. We us...

Lent was never mentioned in the Baptist Sunday school I attended as a child, so when I came to the Episcopal Church as an adult, I had...

A STANDING OVATION to the men and women who were out in the snow and ice repairing power lines, cutting up and moving trees and branch...

My friend Sonya came to visit for a few days the other week. Her daughter and son-in-law gave her a Kindle for Christmas, and while ...

Writing is difficult this week. A dear family member is going through a rough patch, and it is hard to concentrate in between prayers and...

A few months ago the lovely young woman who was renting my upstairs loft asked me if I was a vegetarian. She had seen no meat in my refr...

Face mugs by Rick's old friends Jay Trenchard and Susi Arrow. \ When I first met him he had one that looked exactly like him,  and I t...