The Singing in the Wood

It's probably going to come as a shock to many of you, but, yes, I do actually write stuff!  You might know me as a number cruncher, b...

It's hard to believe that three weeks from this Sunday, we'll be celebrating Easter!  On a more personal note, this is also the ei...

We have a dear relative who is unable to navigate Facebook and whose e-mails seem to go into a black hole.  As she'd very much like to...

Thanks to Kimberly Erickson for the image! Getting over the flu, I decided it was a good time to experiment with the Kindle format.  I...

Sometimes it's easy to say no to a movement or cause just because of some of the characteristics of its supporters.  Diversity  is a p...

I hope all of my readers (both of them!) had a wonderful Christmas and New Year's.  We started our journey back to Oregon from north T...

After the tragic and depraved events in N ewtown, Connecticut, one of the solutions being suggested by some --such as Oregon State Rep. De...