Spring is lovely, after an excessively rainy winter. We've had some really nice days lately. I have some tomato babies started insid...

It was Discovery Pass Free Day, meaning we could go to a state park without paying the pay use fee, so we picked Federation Forest (near E...

I was able to fly out to Ohio for my dad's retirement ceremony. He's been serving his country for fifty years--twenty years activ...

Eugene Onegin is a Tchaikovsky opera based on a lyric novel by Alexander Pushkin.  This was Tacoma Opera's first time putting it on. ...

Lunar New Year sunrise! It's nice this time of year, when sunrise happens during breakfast. And Doug made us pancakes, so that was a...