Snorkeling while Avoiding Sharks

14/02/2025

Beware snakes in the grass.

This one? Not likely to bite.

14/12/2024

11/11/2024

So glad that I early retired in 2015, in large part to stop adding my hard work and taxes to a country that puts its resources predominantly to the military industrial complex.

21/07/2024

Week four is a day late, because I was terrified to turn on my laptop yesterday. I share highs and lows in a rainbow way.

I love how our life on Grateful means that I learn one wonderful new thing every day about French Polynesia (at least). What’s not so delightful is the variety of things that I am learning lately a…

13/07/2024

Week 3 of my new blog introduces you to a hero who is two feet taller than I am! Enjoy my memories and musings....

I had the good fortune of working with Seattle Sonics Legend James Donaldson during my years at the YMCA of Greater Seattle. He was among several past NBA stars living in the Seattle area who stepp…

06/07/2024

Week Two -- just under the wire again, with memories of an influential fellow Protector(ess)

My late mentor cm friend, Dorothy Priscilla Bullet Collins, is largely unknown outside of the Pacific Northwest region of the United States. She came to mind this week. I was thinking about my fir…

14/12/2023

This beautiful piece of art by Ali comes from the very harbor where this page's profile creature was photographed in 2016.

06/08/2023

For my birthday June 28, Jamie gave me a plain wooden box filled with wonderful jewelry tools and findings.

I have been working on this top ever since, doing just a bit at a time to spare my arthritic left wrist and thumb.

At first I was using a hammer and gently tapping a Phillips head screwdriver to make the pattern. Eventually I realized that the balsawood was so soft that I could be more accurate just pressing down with two hands.

Now I need to decide what’s next. My original plan involves dribbling acrylic paint into the holes, letting it dry throughly, then sanding so that colorful “stars” remain.

Thoughts?

21/09/2021

Oh, how I prefer this kind of steering over years of nonprofit steering committees....

12/09/2021

Today was Snorkeling while Avoiding Tour and Fishing Boats.

Our diving float has gone missing, so I crafted a new one with a rubber ball tied into a red and white plastic bag, which I towed on a long piece of tuna cord tied to a hairband that I slipped over my wrist.

Worked like a charm!

22/05/2021

To heck with sharks, watch out for the albacore!