We came. We cracked. We chewed. Saturday, I joined more than 1,000 people at the Anderson Fairgrounds to attend One Safe Place’s 27th annual “Crab Feed.” We faced off against 4,400 pounds of crustaceans-still-in-the-shell and emerged woozy but victorious. The… Continue Reading
Ever since the Cascade Theater reopened gloriously in 2004 with that sublime Mark O’Connor concert, there’s been a certain mumbling and rumbling from patrons: why isn’t there anywhere to go downtown after a show? Well, there’s Spoon Me… and… Bombay’s…. aaaannnnd…. uh….… Continue Reading
What do you get when the doyen of contemporary ballet meets the definitive playwright of our age? Neither a play nor a dance, but something new and marvelous — a multimedia staging of two timeless Anton Chekhov short stories, which… Continue Reading
This week it’s been on my mind to ask myself, “Who’s my peer group?” Peer group. Now there’s a term that is used and overused in today’s lexicon. But to which peer group do you belong? How do you define… Continue Reading
I’m an island girl. And I think I have the right to call myself that, because for a huge chunk of my adult life, I’ve lived on islands. The day after I graduated from college, I flew off to Greece and lived for several months on the island of Crete. At the end of the Continue Reading
Evening red and morning grey Sends a traveler on his way. Evening grey and morning red Rain upon the traveler’s head -Grandpa’s Weather Forecast I saw a red-sky at dawn yesterday, and Grandpa was right. It did bring a bit of rain. It’s about time. Day after day of cloudless, 70-degree weather was weird and Continue Reading
Technology is a pretty amazing thing. Who could have imagined 25 years ago that many of us today would be walking around with powerful little computers in our hip pockets that could help us do so many things? One of… Continue Reading
We all seek control. Even my cat. Lately, she has been waking me up earlier than I want in the hopes that I will put our two German shepherds outside so she can have the whole house to herself. In… Continue Reading
Fifty or more locals gathered in our town’s pizza parlor after a recent burglary. Their mood was somber. I arrived late and stood near the rear of the crowd. I couldn’t see their faces. But from the tone of their… Continue Reading
This week it’s been on my mind to ask myself, “Just what are friends for, anyway?” Or, “Just what is a friend?” Or, “What does it take to be a friend?” We all, every one of us, can attest to… Continue Reading
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