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Spent all day Saturday with family, first driving all four kids to Hanover to have lunch with Paul's father (we picked up Blue Koi on the w...

December 14, 2025 at 4:49 AM

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Woke up before 5 a.m. on Friday to fly to DC, easily the quickest flight we've ever had from Seattle -- the same storm that brought all the...

Greetings from Maryland

December 13, 2025 at 4:21 AM

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Greetings from the Atmospheric River

Thursday was my birthday, though most of the day was hectic for me preparing to travel -- organizing, packing, etc., around a few phone cal...

December 12, 2025 at 6:56 AM

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The atmospheric river was back to full power on Wednesday, so it was just as well none of my plans required being outdoors for long. I had ...

Greetings from Fremont

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December 11, 2025 at 7:47 AM

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Poem for Tuesday and Brookside in Lights

The Holidays By Jane Taylor "Ah! don't you remember, 'tis almost December, And soon will the holidays come; Oh, 'twill be so funny, I'v...

December 10, 2025 at 7:11 AM

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Greetings from The Hills of Tomorrow

...which I did not hear tonight because no one ever includes it in Merrily We Roll Along any more. I just got home late from seeing the fi...

December 9, 2025 at 7:16 AM

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Greetings from Juanita Bay

It rained all morning while we did chores and watched the first of the day's many football games, but it had mostly stopped by lunchtime, so...

December 8, 2025 at 7:12 AM

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In addition to being the last Pokemon Go Community Days of the year, this weekend features the last PNW Witches' Market of the year, at the...

Greetings from Issaquah

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December 7, 2025 at 8:08 AM

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Poem for Friday and Sammamish River Trail

On His Reluctance to Take down the Christmas Ornaments By John Ashbery A nice, normal morning: feet setting out as though in a trance, d...

December 6, 2025 at 7:31 AM

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Very quick post after a lovely evening with Paul and Chris for dinner at Thai Cottage and the Gothard Sisters at Edmonds Center for the Art...

Greetings from Edmonds

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December 5, 2025 at 7:45 AM

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Poem for Wednesday and Glen Echo Trains

The Children's Hour By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Between the dark and the daylight, When the night is beginning to lower, Comes a...

December 4, 2025 at 7:15 AM

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After getting in really late last night, I had to get up early this morning for my semiannual dentist appointment (and they were running be...

Greetings from Redmond

December 3, 2025 at 7:30 AM

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We had a significantly delayed flight from Dulles to SeaTac on Sunday, though a lot of our day was always going to be about travel; we chec...

Greetings from Home

December 2, 2025 at 8:16 AM

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We got up on Sunday just before the hotel breakfast ended. Adam came down to meet us, then he and Haley packed up Pepper and their things t...

Greetings from Wheaton

December 1, 2025 at 4:17 AM

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Greetings from Locust Grove

Adam and Haley spent most of the day with his high school/college friends at Glenstone and then at lunch, so from breakfast to dinnertime, ...

November 30, 2025 at 4:44 AM

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Quickie, got back late after a busy day with more friends and family that started with a drive to Pennsylvania after hotel breakfast with A...

Greetings from Hanover

November 29, 2025 at 4:40 AM

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Greetings for Thanksgiving

Quick post-Thanksgiving post after a long day that started with me waking my husband because I was yelling in my nightmare and apparently i...

November 28, 2025 at 4:45 AM

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Greetings from Gaithersburg

I got to see lots of people on Wednesday! Paul went to work in the morning (and apparently had the whole floor of the office pretty much to...

November 27, 2025 at 4:09 AM

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Greetings from Washingtonian Lake

Paul had to go in to work on Tuesday -- he has to be in the office four times a year -- so Cheryl braved traffic to come spend the day with ...

November 26, 2025 at 4:11 AM

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Hello from Washingtonian Lake, where we're staying for the next week while visiting family and friends for Thanksgiving. Our flight took of...

Greetings from Maryland

November 25, 2025 at 4:11 AM

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Quick post before traveling for Thanksgiving! A lot of the day was spent on chores -- laundry, cleaning, packing, reminding the cats that w...

Greetings from Redmond

November 24, 2025 at 6:03 AM

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I spent a lovely Saturday afternoon in Snohomish with Paul and Chris -- we went to First and Union Kitchen for brunch (I had eggs and skill...

Greetings from Camelot

November 23, 2025 at 7:39 AM

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We went this afternoon to see Wicked: For Good , which I enjoyed enormously -- I wasn't positive I would because I was never particularly a...

Greetings from Oz

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November 22, 2025 at 7:49 AM

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Poem for Thursday and Redmond Holidays

The Wild Duck By John Masefield Twilight. Red in the West. Dimness. A glow on the wood. The teams plod home to rest. The wild duck come ...

November 21, 2025 at 7:06 AM

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Quick post, we're bingeing Death By Lightning , the James Garfield miniseries, which Kay told me to watch on chat this morning with her and...

Greetings from Marymoor