The email was a surprise and then it wasn’t. The man was in my scout troop in San Francisco thirty years ago and as a teen was not the...

Bigfoot 200 is an endurance run from south of Mount St. Helens to Randle, Washington. It is put on by a company that stages one smaller...

That’s the General Class Amateur Radio Operator, the next level above Technician which I passed about a month ago. I figured I would...

I am now officially KG7LEA for the next ten years! A week ago I took and passed my amateur radio Technician Class exam, one wrong answer...

In my posts about my work speaking up for abused and neglected children I have mentioned those kids who are adopted once their parents’...

My ancestors were at the first one in 1621. Teenagers Elizabeth Tilley and John Howland survived that first winter when her parents died...

I just concluded almost three weeks of trial to terminate the parental rights of a father whose three children were removed from the home...

I got to use the truck while I was a member of the Civil Air Patrol in Sacramento. The CAP is nominally the auxiliary of the U.S. Air...

Recently the Seattle Police Department has implemented a training program to address allegations and perceptions of racial profiling....

The year end produced some good news, but I didn’t learn of it until just the other day. One of my foster kids was adopted by her...

July 14, 2008 I was recently nominated to be a member of the Seattle Police Department Office of Professional Accountability Review...

The idea of making new families is completely out of character there. The tiny courtroom sits on the third floor with a view of Third...

May 7, 2008 I had to go through an application process, provide references, be interviewed, undergo a background check, take twenty-four...