writing

  • Seattle, Kind Of

    My son’s U18 hockey team had a tournament on the weekend in Seattle. Well, more accurately, the Seattle area. Redmond, Kirkland, Snoqualmie. So the 4 of us went down to spend the weekend. So then, of course we get the questions from non-hockey-family people: did you rent the scooters? Did…

  • Blogiversary!

    I had a notification that this is my 5 year Blogiversary! Its hard to believe it’s been 5 years since I started the blog – which was really just a means to begin a website – when I didn’t have much website content. It was a way to get started…

  • Reading

    My love of books and reading had been on the (or ‘a’) back burner for quite a while. I could read for hours and days but I don’t feel like I can just flat-out ignore my family. 😂. Then for a few years now, as I put focus again on…

  • Walvis

    I was looking through some books gathering dust on my bookshelf. A book about the history of whaling in the Netherlands came to be in my possession while I lived there. It was March, 2001. A client of the veterinarian clinic came to learn that I was staying in the…