Subscribe to Blog via Email
Join 192 other subscribersCategories
- Addiction (16)
- Advance Directives (12)
- Adventures (7)
- Advocacy (339)
- Aging Sites (169)
- Animals (165)
- Architecture (18)
- Art (155)
- artificial intelligence (6)
- Books (83)
- Business (126)
- Caregiving (22)
- CCRC Info (48)
- Charity (3)
- Civic Engagement Group (118)
- Climate (54)
- Communication (57)
- Community Engagement Group (6)
- Cooking (15)
- Crime (59)
- Dance (49)
- Dementia (98)
- Disabilities (23)
- drugs (7)
- Economics (53)
- Education (172)
- end of life (128)
- energy (6)
- Entertainment (104)
- environment (307)
- Essays (382)
- Ethics (25)
- fashion (1)
- Finance (76)
- Fitness (36)
- Food (74)
- Gardening (26)
- Gay rights/essays (3)
- Geography (1)
- Gifts (2)
- Government (518)
- Grief (34)
- Guns (36)
- happiness (135)
- Health (868)
- History (362)
- Holidays (77)
- Homeless (26)
- Hospice (8)
- Housing (9)
- Humor (1,003)
- Immigration (29)
- In the Neighborhood (479)
- Insurance (4)
- Justice (60)
- Kindness (44)
- language (8)
- Law (142)
- literature (22)
- Love (2)
- Media (59)
- Memory Loss (3)
- Mental Health (21)
- Military (45)
- Morality (29)
- motherhood (2)
- Movies (14)
- Music (215)
- Nature (180)
- nutrition (4)
- Obituaries (16)
- On Stage (8)
- Opera (23)
- Organ donation (1)
- Parks (36)
- Pets (14)
- Philanthropy (21)
- Philosophy (19)
- Photography (98)
- Plants (2)
- Poetry (50)
- Politics (598)
- Poverty (16)
- prayer (11)
- protests (29)
- Race (107)
- Recipes (1)
- Recycling (3)
- refugees (1)
- Religion (100)
- Remembrances (65)
- Retirement (17)
- Safety (63)
- Satire (59)
- Scams (41)
- Science and Technology (227)
- sexuality (1)
- Shopping (11)
- Singing (2)
- Skyline Info (59)
- sleep (10)
- Social justice (189)
- Space (3)
- Spiritual (17)
- Sport (18)
- Sports (57)
- Taxes (11)
- technology (14)
- terrorism (3)
- theater (15)
- Traffic (17)
- Transportation (76)
- Travel (33)
- Uncategorized (1,641)
- Vaccines (16)
- Volunteering (25)
- Voting (5)
- WACCRA (7)
- War (105)
- Women (8)
Subscribe to Blog via Email
Join 192 other subscribers
Author Archives: Jim deMaine
2020 Was the Year Reaganism Died
by Paul Krugman in the NYT Maybe it was the visuals that did it. It’s hard to know what aspects of reality make it into Donald Trump’s ever-shrinking bubble — and I’m happy to say that after Jan. 20 we … Continue reading
Posted in Finance, Government
Comments Off on 2020 Was the Year Reaganism Died
Philosophy for growing old
Thanks to Al MacR. Make sure to scroll down–wonderful pictures to go with the thoughts!
Posted in Aging Sites, Essays, Photography
2 Comments
A tough year to lose your favourites
Thanks to Pam P. I enjoyed the British spelling of “favourite” – a hint of the source. “In church last Sunday, I heard a sweet elderly lady in a nearby pewsaying a prayer. She was so innocent and sincere that … Continue reading
Hope it’s not been too blue
Thanks to Pam P.
Posted in Entertainment, Music
Comments Off on Hope it’s not been too blue
Don’t celebrate too hard!
Thanks Sybil-Ann!
Posted in Humor
Comments Off on Don’t celebrate too hard!
Tough job
Thanks to Mike C. Ed note: Remember chicken little saying, “the sky is falling?” Well, it’s not falling , it’s disappearing!
Posted in In the Neighborhood
Comments Off on Tough job
Two Christmases
Thanks to Linda W. “Adlai, do you remember two kinds of Christmases? There is one kind in a house where there is little and a present represents not only love but sacrifice. The one single package is opened with a … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Comments Off on Two Christmases
Scheduled, arrived, and injected – the vaccine brings light
A highly organized and successful mRNA-based vaccine immunization process is underway at Skyline today–against SARS-CoV-2 virus which is the cause of the COVID-19 pandemic. Today 147 staff and 84 residents in the Terraces are signed up to receive the first dose … Continue reading
Posted in Health
2 Comments
How have you been?
Thanks to Dorothy W.
La Lectora
The last of her kind, Gricel regales Cuban cigar-rollers with readings and good humour Part of a Cuban tradition dating back to the 19th century, the lector de tabaqueria is tasked with reading to entertain the workers, or rollers, in cigar factories. … Continue reading
Posted in Essays
Comments Off on La Lectora
Changes on Madison St.
Thanks to Barb W. To see the changes coming on Madison St. click here: Madison BRT – RapidRide G Line project or here seattle.gov/Transportation/MadisonBRT.htm.
Posted in In the Neighborhood, Transportation
1 Comment
Christmas music from a Scottish castle — in Pennsylvania
The annual tradition of the “Glencairn Sing” continues with a special online program. This unique concert video features the “Glencairn Horns,” other instruments, vocalists, readings from the Christmas story, and musicians performing music familiar to generations of audiences. Making this … Continue reading
Posted in Music
Comments Off on Christmas music from a Scottish castle — in Pennsylvania
Sulfur on your shoes? Kiss through a handkerchief?
Thanks to Sue P. Notice posted in Dublin during the Spanish Influenza epidemic. THE PUBLIC IS URGED TO STAY OUT OF PUBLIC PLACES SUCH AS CAFES. THEATRES, CINEMAS. AND PUBLIC HOUSES. SEE ONLY THOSE PERSONS ONE NEEDS TO SEE. REFRAIN … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Comments Off on Sulfur on your shoes? Kiss through a handkerchief?
From fabric to the funnies, here are some eco-friendly alternatives to wrapping paper
From the Seattle Times. Thanks to Mike C. for finding this and reminding us. By JiaYing GrygielSpecial to The Seattle Times Americans spend more than $8 billion on wrapping paper each year, according to Sundale Research. That’s a lot of money … Continue reading
Posted in Advocacy, Climate, environment, Holidays
Comments Off on From fabric to the funnies, here are some eco-friendly alternatives to wrapping paper
Hamildolph (An American Christmas Story) – Hamilton Parody
Thanks Mary Jane!
Posted in Uncategorized
Comments Off on Hamildolph (An American Christmas Story) – Hamilton Parody