We started calling it “the mansion” but ironically so, perhaps because we were not a mansion type of family. The name stuck and we still call it that.

The headline in the Miami Herald after it opened was one of which every playwright dreams; “BBC Murders’ kills it at the Parker Playhouse.”

My conversations have been hovering near disappointment with the quick infusion of technology in all of our lives and what that means for … well for everything really, but particularly for the lovely, sturdy, familiar, treasured and sometimes dog-eared-because-we-keep-reaching-for-them books.

I often find myself (in this 21st century) much more excited by the scripts that are being written and produced for television dramas, than I am by what Hollywood has to offer.

“I’m gonna roll,” I thought and braced myself.

Halloween is Wednesday and let us remember to honor the dead as the Celtic people did, even while sneaking a Mounds bar or two from the stash.

It’s not enough that I have to keep up with email, post to several Facebook pages, maintain a couple of websites and write stories. I have to make bird sounds, too? Shoot me now.

Sports was the main focus of my life for many years. I never even considered that my own children would not be interested in athletics. I knew their father wasn’t a sports kid when I married him, but I guess I figured at least one of them would be like me in that way.

It’s the cabal of tech-life; this vast sea of holes down which we all fall …

Last weekend was a busy one on the south end of the island.

My good friend Molly Larsen Cook, the writer, recently moved off Whidbey Island to Bellevue. I hated to see her go.

I admit it. I have a Facebook hangover.
Oh. Make it stop.
But that’s a subject for another day.
Meanwhile, surround me with all things bucolical.

Here is a dilemma: Family vacations with teenagers.
The family took a vacation to British Columbia last week.
We stayed one night at the lovely old Sylvia Hotel, www.sylviahotel.com which overlooks Vancouver’s huge, waterfront Stanley Park.

When I find myself at a loss as to what to write, what to “blog” or bloog, or bloop, or whatever this is, I refer back to that line my friend “Sky” gave me.

Duff ’n Stuff, July 24, 2012 Some folks around here have been asking me, “What exactly is the Whidbey Art Source website?” Well, in a nutshell, it’s a website where anyone interested in the arts and culture on Whidbey Island can go to find out what events are going on that week, read stories about […]