Timing is everything. This! (follow the fabulous arrow) popped out of the laundry, while I was stuffing it full of dirty laundry, BEFORE I started it. .

Like paper the pedals and this flower look as if they were an origami. And all I just want to do is eat them up for dessert and write about their bubble gum gelato taste in a foody gazzette. This summer I entered a perennial bliss, not having planted much of anything, just amazed it…

These are the tears of joy when my husband brings home the gyoza dumplings. .

Love this photo! My friend let me take a photo of her hand. This photo reminds me of how different our cultures are but how good that is. How fortunate am I to work with amazing, brilliant and compasionate folks, an inclusive group, and overall good people. It makes the difference of whether I am…

She sat on my lap for four hours.  Without batting an eye, she had no iPhone, only her feline thoughts, and I, with my mind racing, in a non-meditative, implusive quick-reading mode, fielded dozens of magazine headline and short stories from the top news sites.  I tend to read most violently the minute my son has…

Here I woke up, starring at the sea of a blue and green sky, hearing the birds tweeting, “Good morning to you, Sunshine!” on a sweltering sunny day in the northwest mountains.  I took the photo a few seconds before my claustrophobia hit hard, as it usually does when I realize I am in a…

When you find a great team to work with, the days in the fish bowl seem to swim by. ..

Beauty and choice are in the eye of the beholder. Sometimes a penguin looks better with a Seahawks football helmet. Who am I to argue. Here are some elaborate choices in a fourth grade winter holiday decorating session.