I’m not much of a sports fan, but GO HAWKS!!

Here is a picture taken Friday outside where I work.  Fridays have been Seahawk gear days for a long time, but yesterday was special.  Most of us really can't believe it, that the Seattle Seahawks are going to the Super Bowl for the second year in a row!!  Every little standup meeting all day yesterday …

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Coarsening the Culture

It started with an essay in the (supposedly) high-minded publication for Wall Street Journal subscribers, WSJ Magazine.  This comes out every other month in the print edition, and is a slick magazine designed to appeal to high-income readers.  It is filled with ads for expensive clothing, watches, and jewelry, and features stories about people and …

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Easy One! Photo Challenge: Twinkle

I must have hundreds of pictures of the beautiful Christmas lights in the "Bavarian Village" of Leavenworth, Washington.  Here's one of my favorites. Leavenworth is in the Cascade Mountains, just west of Wenatchee on US Highway 2.  Every summer, my husband goes there to the International Accordion Celebration.  We try to drive up there a …

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Just some thoughts on blogging…what do readers like?

I've been doing this here blog for a few years now, and I have noticed some things.  Like, I seem to get new followers whenever I do a post that's not relevant to the theme of my blog (conservatism).  And a goodly number of other WordPress bloggers seem to blog about their personal lives, and …

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Thanksgiving

I subscribe to the RushBabe49 Properly Grateful Theory of Life.  Often throughout the year, I stop and think about how fortunate I am to live in this Greatest Nation on God's Green Earth.  By the accident of birth, I had upper-middle-class parents, in one of the most beautiful parts of this country (Pacific Northwest).  I …

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