Subscribe to Blog via Email
Join 189 other subscribersCategories
- Addiction (2)
- Advance Directives (2)
- Adventures (7)
- Advocacy (200)
- Aging Sites (56)
- Animals (69)
- Architecture (14)
- Art (56)
- artificial intelligence (7)
- Books (36)
- Business (46)
- Caregiving (22)
- CCRC Info (17)
- Charity (4)
- Civic Engagement Group (14)
- Climate (32)
- Communication (58)
- Community Engagement Group (1)
- Cooking (2)
- Crime (34)
- Dance (12)
- Dementia (73)
- Disabilities (17)
- drugs (7)
- Economics (57)
- Education (60)
- end of life (55)
- energy (6)
- Entertainment (31)
- environment (96)
- Essays (127)
- Ethics (29)
- fashion (1)
- Finance (30)
- Fitness (13)
- flowers (2)
- Food (38)
- Gardening (20)
- Gay rights/essays (3)
- Geography (1)
- Gifts (3)
- Government (420)
- Grief (19)
- Guns (28)
- happiness (67)
- Health (320)
- History (171)
- Holidays (28)
- Homeless (12)
- Hospice (3)
- Housing (10)
- Humor (137)
- Immigration (31)
- In the Neighborhood (136)
- Insurance (4)
- Justice (56)
- Kindness (47)
- language (12)
- Law (93)
- literature (5)
- Love (2)
- Media (26)
- Memory Loss (3)
- Mental Health (22)
- Military (25)
- Morality (33)
- motherhood (3)
- Movies (5)
- Music (69)
- Nature (38)
- nutrition (5)
- Obituaries (8)
- On Stage (2)
- Opera (4)
- Parks (17)
- Pets (3)
- Philanthropy (13)
- Philosophy (1)
- Photography (29)
- Plants (2)
- Poetry (23)
- Politics (192)
- Poverty (10)
- prayer (6)
- protests (29)
- Race (54)
- Recycling (3)
- refugees (1)
- Religion (52)
- Remembrances (16)
- Retirement (6)
- Safety (18)
- Satire (49)
- Scams (17)
- Science and Technology (53)
- sexuality (1)
- Shopping (8)
- Singing (2)
- Skyline Info (24)
- sleep (2)
- Social justice (45)
- Space (3)
- Spiritual (5)
- Sport (6)
- Sports (28)
- Taxes (9)
- technology (8)
- terrorism (3)
- theater (5)
- Traffic (7)
- Transportation (21)
- Travel (6)
- Uncategorized (1,153)
- Vaccines (16)
- Volunteering (11)
- Voting (8)
- WACCRA (2)
- War (75)
- Women (8)
Subscribe to Blog via Email
Join 189 other subscribers
Author Archives: Jim deMaine
Comments from a center-right French politician
Thanks to Bob P.
Posted in Uncategorized
Comments Off on Comments from a center-right French politician
Telephone Town Hall
Thanks to Rick B and Mary Jane F. You’re Invited: March 11th Telephone Town Hall! people Update from Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal – If you weren’t able to make it to my last town hall, where we had 1,000 people come … Continue reading
Posted in Government
Comments Off on Telephone Town Hall
News About Inspiring Women
Thanks to Pam P. 19 Ways to Celebrate International Women’s Day International Women’s Day is an annual celebration of the contributions of women around the world. We’ve put together the best ideas to help you celebrate on March 8th. Read … Continue reading
Heading out
Thanks to Mary Jane F. Images from Maine #208 Still There Dear Friends, Since Tuesday I have, to be honest, not been well. This is neither the time nor place to … Continue reading
Time to keep hard copies?
Ed note: We are in unchartered waters with Elon Musk pulling the chain saw trigger as he seeks cuts in the “deep state” in order to allow tax cuts. So far he hasn’t attacked Social Security but he is likely … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Comments Off on Time to keep hard copies?
From Churchill to Trump – a terrifying transition
Commentary by Heather Cox Richardson (thanks to Mary M.) In the gym of Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri, on March 5, 1946, former and future prime minister of the United Kingdom Winston Churchill rose to deliver a speech. Formally titled … Continue reading
Posted in Government, History, Politics
Comments Off on From Churchill to Trump – a terrifying transition
Good news from WACCRA
Ed note: If you haven’t already, please consider joining fellow residents in this advocacy association which promotes the safety and rights of residents in Washington State CCRCs. Click here for info. March 4, 2025 Congratulations! With your help Substitute Senate … Continue reading
Posted in CCRC Info
Comments Off on Good news from WACCRA
Connecting the dots
Ed note: RFK Jr. does not accept the germ theory of disease. Like the old protest song says, “When will they ever learn.” Thanks to Pam P.
Posted in Uncategorized
Comments Off on Connecting the dots
AI Robots May Hold Key to Nursing Japan’s Ageing Population
by Kiyoshi Takenaka in Medscape (thanks to Sandy J.) TOKYO (Reuters) – Recently in Tokyo an AI-driven robot leaned over a man lying on his back and gently put a hand on his knee and another on a shoulder and … Continue reading
Posted in Health, Science and Technology
Comments Off on AI Robots May Hold Key to Nursing Japan’s Ageing Population
Letter: This will truly be a new golden age for America. Out with D.E.I., in with T.E.I.
Letter to the editor in the Salt Lake Tribune – thanks to Bob P. (Photo courtesy of Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation/© Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation) Maurizio Cattelan’s “America”, is a solid gold, fully functioning toilet that was installed in the … Continue reading
Posted in Essays, Government
Comments Off on Letter: This will truly be a new golden age for America. Out with D.E.I., in with T.E.I.
London subway tells it all
Thanks to Dan S.
Dr. Francis Collins sings with Renee Fleming
I think we’d all agree that these are Hard Times – thanks for your service to humanity Dr. Collins.
Posted in Music, Religion, Science and Technology
Comments Off on Dr. Francis Collins sings with Renee Fleming
Legendary former NIH director retires from embattled agency
Dr. Francis Collins, the legendary former director of the National Institutes of Health, has retired, NPR has learned. Collins, who notified the NIH on Friday of his decision, did not specify the reasons for his departure. But his retirement comes … Continue reading
Posted in Religion, Science and Technology
Comments Off on Legendary former NIH director retires from embattled agency
What is the scientific process?
Thanks to Ed M. — See this excerpt from a recent JAMA editorial:https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2830748 “The free exchange of ideas is essential to scientific progress, just as it is integral to the founding ideals of the US. The integrity of the scientific … Continue reading
Posted in Science and Technology
Comments Off on What is the scientific process?
Remembering Skyline resident Alan Black
Thanks to Mary M. — from The History Link Supporter Spotlight: Alan F. Black Charitable Fund We are filled with gratitude for the Alan F. Black Charitable Fund’s wonderfully generous support of the Forest History Project, which, when combined with … Continue reading
Posted in History
Comments Off on Remembering Skyline resident Alan Black
Francisco Goya, The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters
Thanks to Diana C. – an image for our time In this ominous image, we see the dark vision of humanity that characterizes Goya’s work for the rest of his life.
Posted in Art
Comments Off on Francisco Goya, The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters
Shredding Light
Thanks to Bob P. ‘Shredding Light’ is a narrative light painting stop motion short film by DARIUSTWIN. There are hundreds of light painting photographs that make up the project. Each of these long exposure light painting photographs are straight out … Continue reading
Posted in Art
Comments Off on Shredding Light
How Red Wine Lost Its Health Halo
Ed note: Unfortunately, facts can be unpleasant. Alcohol, even red wine, can be a contributor to A-fib and cancer,the hype from the industry not withstanding. The secret is likely moderation along with “Dr. Diet, Dr. Quiet and Dr. Merryman.” For … Continue reading
Posted in Health
Comments Off on How Red Wine Lost Its Health Halo
Her heart went Hamma Hamma, and her teeth went Klickitat
Ed note: Who knew Washington names could cause such pun-ishment?
Keepers of the Land
by David B. Williams in the Street Smart Naturalist (thanks to Mary M.) Many, many years ago, I was a national park ranger at Arches National Park and the Frederick Law Olmsted National Historic Site. As a ranger, I led … Continue reading
Posted in Government, Parks
Comments Off on Keepers of the Land
Grief and the Body – at Town Hall
Mary-Frances O’Connor with Dr. Anthony Back Date: Sunday, March 23Time: 7:30 pm PDT Cost:$10 – $35 Sliding Scale – Get Tickets Despite grief being one of the most universal of human experiences, there is still much that we do not know … Continue reading
Posted in Grief
Comments Off on Grief and the Body – at Town Hall