Happy New Year!
Now that this minor detail is out of the way, I need to tell you about something that I feel rather strongly about. The new year is 2010. That is pronounced TWENTY-TEN. I know that most of us have not been calling the last few years twenty-oh-nine and so forth. We have used [...]
It was the second week of September. Just after Labor Day. I was innocently shopping at my local Fred Meyer store when I saw it. A couple of aisles had been transformed into the place to buy your Christmas lights. The season has begun.
As the big day drew closer, there were more and more signs [...]
I stand in astonishment at the arguments that We the People of the United States make over Christmas. For a holiday that is supposed to be so very joyous, there are so many others that are offended at the very mention of the holiday. Some of these folks, and you know who they are, will [...]
The holiday shopping season is on all of our minds this time of year. I don’t have a particularly vast shopping list this year, as it seems right to give priority to the necessities over the luxuries in life. So my thoughts have turned more to where I don’t shop, rather than where I do [...]
Some random comments on this new holiday that is quickly becoming more prominent than Christmas itself:
So, we have learned that the day after Thanksgiving in the US is a new holiday known as “Black Friday.” This is not to be confused with Black Tuesday, the day that the New York Stock Exchange crashed in 1929 [...]
There are many ways to describe what Cascadia is. It has been described differently by a multitude of people, both as a region and as a way of life. I see it as both — both as a geographic region and as a way of life. I will take the rest of this page to [...]
Anyone who has grown up in the Seattle area, especially if they are over the age of 40, is familiar with the exploits of Ivar Haglund. Ivar is the well known founder of Ivar’s Restaurants in Seattle and throughout Cascadia. He was also well known as a character and practical joker who formed a part [...]
It has been surprising to me how quickly the new term “Salish Sea” has come into usage to describe the inland waterways that comprise the areas we still call Puget Sound, the Georgia Strait, and the Strait of Juan de Fuca.
Even the name of this blog suggests that the environment of our region of the [...]
I have been asked by more than the average number of people lately whether I believe that the world is coming to an end. Yes, it will. Depending upon your belief system, it will happen when the Creator says so, or when the Son of God returns to Earth, or when some catastrophic event from [...]
Well, it’s likely not the bubonic plague or anything like that. It might feel like it, of course, but it isn’t.
Really, I think I have the common cold. In my 47 years of experience as a human, the symptoms I have seem to match up with that scenario. But I have one other concern. What [...]
