Category Archives: General Discussion

I went down to the water and what did I see? A lonesome duck dinghy, looking sideways at me. and saying, as loudly as eyes can imply,                            … Continue reading →

SEATTLE POST 2 I’M SETTLING IN. I’m now a regular at the Sunday Farmers’ Market, where, with Charlie’s running interference. I, with my nimble joystick, have zigged through one side of the Market regulars who are mostly tall, slow, texting … Continue reading →

Hello from Seattle!  Yes, three weeks into my latest adventure, I am happily west coastal and loving my digs. Though nothing can replace Roseledge on the harbor of my summers,  I am still near water, busy monitoring boats as they … Continue reading →

I waited to tell you until I knew for sure, and now I do.  So the news is that Jamie Wyeth, a good and abutting neighbor on three sides, is buying Roseledge.  I sold it “as is” so it will … Continue reading →

There is no easy way to say this. I am selling Roseledge, place of my heart. It is a hard decision, but the right one.  Let me count the reasons why. In a nutshell, my body made me do it. … Continue reading →

Bring on the sunshine; I have a new hat.  I’m coming to Maine on August 13 for only one week, so get ready to party. Here I am lurking in Minneapolis,  shade-testing the hat and managing not to do a … Continue reading →

I think I might be petrifying. I have more and growing kidney stones, gallstones, calcified granuloma in my lungs, appendicoliths in my “normal appendix” which I thought had been removed when it ruptured in 2013 (the amazing part of the … Continue reading →

REGARDING SOURCES:  If an argument is only as good as its sources and there are so many sources and so many kinds of “good,” how does an inquiring person decide which of the many sources is or are the “best … Continue reading →

What sources of information do the muddlers trust? It used to be that the checks and balances of scientific research, news media, conventional publishing, even government documents were well in place, understood, and able to be challenged or balanced as … Continue reading →

It was 7:00 am on a normal morning at the Kenwood, where I live on the 12th floor. Several of us on the elevator were silently thirsting for that first cup of fresh, hot coffee, when this newbie I had … Continue reading →