Fighting Finn

I'm out.  Roughly translated, it means I'm done, I'm leaving, I'm over it, this is a pain etc. But are we really o...

Our house has had 3 owners – us, the Longs, and Per and Anna Swenson according to the census records. We bought the house from the Long...

My family and maybe some of my friends know I have a bit of the shine. I don't see dead people exactly but I have premonitions abo...

Last week I dropped Will off at   school . He's a sophomore now in college. My friend Lou Lou just dropped her daughter Olivia off ...

This sign makes me sad. I think it's supposed to be sweet, but it makes me sad.  I saw it on a walk through my neighborhood today....

When our son was a little boy, we took him to New York City's famed FAO Schwartz toy store. We would go there many times over the yea...

For Will's 18th birthday, all he wanted was clothes, or money for clothes so he could be a new man going to college in the fall. I t...

I went into the City on Thursday to meet up with a friend who was in town from Portland. It's been ages and I'm so glad we had t...

My friend Julie and I had a pretty funny conversation this afternoon, or it seemed funny to us. Through crackling cell phones we had a s...

I'm putting together some blogs for my son about becoming an adult. So if some of my posts seem a bit "master of the obvious...

Last night Will was coming home from the gym and ran into some kids he knows from baseball. One of them has a dog that apparently gets out ...

Our neighbors and dear friends have two younger boys and we have an older boy. There was a a time when they were all sort of closer in a...

Is this an homage to my husband's favorite ad? No it's not. Here's what really happened. I was at my friend's pa...

Too long off the blog. Not for lack of content. Writing for work and writing my blog for fun...can at times be mutually exclusive. I...