I have been collecting quotes from Lorraine that either offer an insightful comment on the world at large or just upon her world. I will...

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

In this case the news is of the family variety. My son Matt and his wife Tiffany announced to the family a couple weeks ago that she is...

The whole idea of online networking has gotten coverage lately. Sites like Facebook and Twitter have created networks of friends,...

Writing is an individual sport, but the writer is not always alone, certainly not this one. I started taking writing classes in 1995....

This blog started as a way to report progress in my efforts to publish my two novels, Down The River, an historical novel, and Tiny...

I have just seen the finished DVD of The Power of Snoqualmie Falls, an hour-long documentary for which I did the research and wrote the...

One of my distractions is the construction of furniture for me, my family, and friends. I have a small-but-respectable wood shop in what...

Thanks to Netflix I found Over There, a 2005 series produced by Steven Bochco about the war in Iraq. I gave the pilot episode a try and I...

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...

I got such good comments about our letter for the holidays I thought I would post it here. The year 2008 has been a wonderful one for all...

It snowed last weekend, Friday morning, Saturday night, and Sunday night. The total accumulation here on the north side of Queen Anne...

It’s hard to imagine that forty years ago Seattle endured two significant storms a season without too much difficulty. Indeed there were...

On a more serious note I am being drawn into the issue of biased policing as part of my civilian oversight job. (I thought it was a...

Every year, two so far, Lorraine joins the staff at Forbes.com in welcoming contestants for the Boost Your Business award of $100,000....

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

I have always been interested in history and in the history of my family. My maternal grandmother, Pebble Flood, commissioned some family...

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...

Click here to see how Lorraine and I spend our vacations. Click to see our albums of Normandy, Brittany, and Paris. The shot at the right...