Quirky Quips & Sewing Snips
Once again I have been given licence (and a license) to educate children.  I love to make kids think. Sometimes my methods are a little unorthodox, but they are usually fun. Today I was in a special needs classroom with 3 hearing impaired kids and their aid, Ms. Ash.  Cognitively there is [...]
As many of you now know, I am working at a very popular local coffee shop. We don’t have any retail chain stores here on the island, so ours isn’t a name you know, but we’re a Friday Harbor hotspot just the same. I love people, so for the most [...]
I took myself and my Avon off to Criminal Coffee this morning and set up at a table. This is my new Monday strategy.  I took a few nice products to catch people’s eye. It worked. A lot of folks stopped to look. No one bought anything on the table, [...]
This morning I got on the ferry and traveled to the mainland for an Avon meeting. Because I live on the island and have to ferry to Anacortes and then drive to Mt. Vernon, what is a lunch date to the other Representatives is an all day commitment for me. [...]
Amoeba and I enjoyed out cross country drive.  There seemed to be a lot of big rigs on the road. Every time a rig would pass us, or we would pass a rig, Amoeba would say, “What recession?” Apparently trucking companies still have plenty of goods to haul. Almost every [...]