Hey little girl! Guess who’s sitting in the lobby of the Cedars Inn in Ritzville with tears in his eyes? Guess who can’t believe you’re graduating from Washington State already? Didn’t I just take you to kindergarten for your first day of school at Sunset Elementary? Weren’t we just in Indian Princesses with other dads and...
read moreI’ve got a cool vet. I know… everyone who has a dog thinks his vet is cool. But mine’s the coolest. She’s Dr. Terry Tomchick at Alpine Animal Hospital. I’ve known “Dr. Terry” for 25 years. I took my first golden, Murph, to Dr. Terry when he was six weeks old. Fourteen years later, I took my second golden, Willie,...
read moreFor a long time, I weighed 210 pounds. Then for a long time I weighed 220 pounds, then 225, and for the past several years, I’ve held steady at 230. What’s next 240, 250, 300? That’s the fear. But what I’m going to try to do is head in the other direction. I’m shooting for 200 but would be thrilled to hit 210...
read moreI really thought we were going to beat the Huskies in the Pac-12 tourney last night. We had just come off a couple of great wins over UCLA and USC, and I thought that momentum would carry us past the Dawgs. How confident was I? Confident enough to talk trash over and over again on Facebook, counting down the hours until we would...
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