Pokemon Club, or Why Adam’s Mom is My Hero

One Sunday a month, Tuxedo Boy goes to Pokemon Club–a gathering of Pokemon-minded second graders at the home of a true saint, Adam’s Mom.   As many as ten kids show up for this two hour event, which includes card swapping, Game Boy playing, movie viewing, and bonding.  I bow down in awe to Adam’s Mom, a woman [...]

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Bronze Chrysanthemums Mean Fall

It’s fall here on the Palouse, for sure.  Cold, damp, muddy–but with occasional  bursts of brilliant sunshine, some amazing last-ditch blooming and fruiting.
We’re being initiated into the world of athletic participation:  Little Sunshine has joined the junior high cross-country team.  After 43 years of avoiding even the most ancillary whisker of an athletic event, I’ve [...]

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Shasta Daisies

Shasta Daisies
Originally uploaded by melynda.huskey

These wholesome and lovely flowers, from our front garden, are here to highlight my joy: my sweet, sweet babies pooled their allowances and bought me the Anniversary Tomb Raider as a surprise!
We played the original Tomb-er-ator (as the kids called it) on the late lamented Packard Bell, back when it first [...]

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Poetry Friday (and a game!)

My first Friday poem is dedicated to the memory of the spectacular Harison’s Yellow Rose which bloomed prodigally in the first week of June on the corner of Harrison Street and the Troy Highway. It had likely been there 60 years, judging from its size; it had certainly been there 28 years, because I [...]

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