Maggie says, “where’ve you been?”
Working hard all day and late into the night. Hopefully tomorrow will be less busy and more conducive to coherent thought.
Good night.

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This morning I screamed like a little girl. Or maybe shrieked is a better word?
For the record I am not afraid of mice, growing up on the family farm field mice in the grain bin were a fact of life. But somehow being confronted with one this morning while running late and wearing my dress […]

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I’m not feeling very interesting or inspired tonight. But as I was sitting in my favorite seat in the house talking to colleagues in Singapore, I thought perhaps you’d like to know what I see?
The seat is the new couch in our living room, it rests just below the front window which looks out across […]

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Who will tell the people? We are not who we think we are. We are living on borrowed time and borrowed dimes. We still have all the potential for greatness, but only if we get back to work on our country.

I don’t always agree with Thomas Friedman, but I almost always respect what he has […]

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Blackberries are rampant in Washington state and we pretty much consider them an invasive weed. There is one native variety, the trailing blackberry, but all of the evergreen versions are invasive from either Europe or Asia. We’ve got some trailing out of the woods on our back property line that I think are native and […]

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For more than a month, every time I’ve driven down the road between here and the town to the north I’ve seen a dead cow in the same pasture in the same place. It was a black and white dairy cow. I saw her standing once when we first moved in, then the next time […]

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On the theme of doing my part and making smarter choices, I want to tell you about my new favorite paint. No, I’m not being paid to do it (but they should since I’m telling everyone I know!) and no I didn’t get a free sample. I paid $50+ per gallon just like everyone […]

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