Yet A(nother) Year In Seattle Sunday, April 25, 2066 – Food Poisoning … and… it would seem I spoke too soon. No, no one needed medical care during or immediately after the luncheon, but almost every one of us needed it later. The only people spared the midnight trip to the ER were those where […]
Read More Yet A(nother) Year in Seattle – Week 18 – ManipulationYet A(nother) Year In Seattle Sunday, April 18, 2066 – an unexpected request Sometimes I really wonder what is going on inside my daughter’s head. I should have known something was up when she arranged for Schrödinger to join our family, but I was just happy to have a cat around again and truthfully I […]
Read More Yet A(nother) Year in Seattle – Week 17 – Old WaysYet A(nother) Year In Seattle Sunday, April 11, 2066 – Observation for Easter Have you ever looked at something and you knew it was out of kilter but you couldn’t put your finger on it. And every time you looked at it, you were struck by how wrong it was but your brain just couldn’t […]
Read More Yet A(nother) Year in Seattle – Week 16 – DetourYet A(nother) Year In Seattle Sunday, April 4, 2066 – Grill happy Ray hasn’t been released from the hospital so much as kicked out. I got a call from him around 10:00 this morning, so after church, we went to bail him out… I mean pick him up. Since he’ll be doing physical therapy on […]
Read More Yet A(nother) Year in Seattle – Week 15 – When Plans CollideYet A(nother) Year In Seattle Sunday, March 28, 2066 – A shocking surprise Last Sunday’s teasing continued today, but it was different this time. It would seem my big brother has been learning from my younger brothers how to not only take a ribbing out but how to seek revenge in creative and amusing ways. […]
Read More Yet A(nother) Year in Seattle – Week 14 – Fools Rush InYet A(nother) Year In Seattle Sunday, March 21, 2066 – Running Gags You can always count on family to be there when you need them, and to laugh their butts off when you do something monumentally stupid. It doesn’t help if you know it was monumentally stupid. It doesn’t matter how brave you were, or […]
Read More Yet A(nother) Year in Seattle – Week 13 – Skirting around the issueYet A(nother) Year In Seattle Sunday, March 14, 2066 – A step too far? Either someone didn’t get the memo or they improvised… either way, I ended up with a rather annoyed looking ferret in my boot this morning. I’m not sure which of Nathan’s co-conspirators did it… but I can venture a guess… especially […]
Read More Yet A(nother) Year in Seattle – Week 12 – The long and short of itYet A(nother) Year In Seattle Sunday, March 7, 2066 – Hitting the bricks… or hitting with them By now Mom Walker has long suspected that Nathan and I are completely mad, but today I think she finally realized that leaving the two of us together is pure insanity. Admittedly I thought Nathan had taken a […]
Read More Yet A(nother) Year in Seattle – Week 11 – The best defense is a strong… ferret?Yet A(nother) Year In Seattle Sunday February 28, 2066 – The Party’s Over I had a long talk with Nathan today. Okay, I had several long talks, with Nathan, with Mario and Case, and Mom and Dad Walker and Trina and Nick and with Father Mike at St. Matthews. They’re giving me time, letting me […]
Read More Yet A(nother) Year in Seattle – Week 10 – Problems are easy, when they belong to someone elseYet A(nother) Year In Seattle Sunday, February 21, 2066 – Hostile witness Today was a perfect Sunday… if your perfect Sundays involve being drawn down on by a Knight Errant Tactical Squad, when you’re coming home from Sunday Dinner with family and have your eight-year-old daughter with you in the car. I’m guessing it wasn’t […]
Read More Yet A(nother) Year in Seattle – Week 09 – It’s not what you know that can hurt you, but who you know