Finding My Way

This is my favorite outfit. Sometimes I wear this blouse and jacket with pants. I love the way the jacket hides my tummy and looks so yo...

Mark and I walked the new linear park along the Willamette River in Oregon City this morning. It was a beautiful walk! Some of the landscapi...

Some random things on my random mind... State of the Union I wish we weren't so divided politically as a nation. I wish we could come ...

I love teaching. I really do. I love my students, I love the things I get to teach them to do, I love working with my colleagues...it's ...

If you have ever looked at my list of "favorite blogs," you may have noticed a link called " Sailing Alone Around the World...

It's time to check out  The Skinny , where I've just updated with my weekly post! Please check it out, and please leave a comment! ...

I am stealing the idea for today's post from Lauren's blog . (Lauren writes a weekly post for The Skinny , and she is a friend of Ka...

What does it mean to be creative? The easy answers: sing, paint, play an instrument, invent something More subtle ways to be creative: ...

I am grateful for Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. It is frightening to me to contemplate what our world would be like without his leadership ...

Grandma Sprague died this morning. She wasn't really my grandmother; she was my next-door neighbor for thirty years. She had a stroke a ...

I finished reading Walden  (on schedule!) and was (mostly) prepared for class discussion last night. Among many things, we discussed Thorea...

All four Oregon City wards met together today (about 800 people, and that was only about half of the membership) to split into five wards. ...

(Don't miss my week 2 update in The Skinny today!) Started a new term at PSU on Monday evening. I'm working on a MFA in writing, ...

I saw a bumper sticker last night that read, " More wagging, less barking. " I admit I had to think about that for a minute! ...

The first Sunday of the year is always one of my very favorite church meetings. Because it's the first Sunday of the month, it's tes...

Yesterday I attended my two-year-old granddaughter's birthday party. Her mama made darling cupcakes (Holly is an expert cupcake artist--...

When I was a little kid, my mom would tuck me in on New Year's Eve and tell me, "See you next year!" I always thought that was...

It's snowing in Oregon City! I realize that this is small news to the rest of the world, and that most of the Midwest and East are burie...

Near the end of 2006 I heard about a unique kind of journal from my friend, Paulene Kerr. It's a 10-year journal , where each page has ...

Mark and Maleena and I are in Colville, Washington, visiting my parents (Ken and Nancy Jenkins) for Christmas. We arrived yesterday afternoo...

I returned on Monday night from a four-day trip to Rexburg, Idaho, and then to Provo, Utah, to be with David for his graduation from BYU-Ida...

Here's an email I received from "Brevity," an online nonfiction journal. I submitted two short essays to them last month. Oh, ...

Ha ha! The title of this post is designed to strike terror into David's heart. He and I both remember, so well, that weekend... It was...

Polly has moved to the Northwest! Eric will follow this weekend. Polly and the kids are getting settled into their new home in Granger, WA. ...