Subscribe to Blog via Email
Join 183 other subscribersQuote of the Day
more QuotesCategories
- Addiction (14)
- Advance Directives (11)
- Adventures (5)
- Advocacy (222)
- Aging Sites (149)
- Animals (145)
- Architecture (14)
- Art (137)
- artificial intelligence (1)
- Books (72)
- Business (111)
- Caregiving (16)
- CCRC Info (41)
- Civic Engagement Group (118)
- Climate (49)
- Communication (25)
- Community Engagement Group (6)
- Cooking (14)
- Crime (48)
- Dance (46)
- Dementia (86)
- Disabilities (17)
- drugs (3)
- Economics (25)
- Education (147)
- end of life (115)
- energy (2)
- Entertainment (95)
- environment (287)
- Essays (344)
- Ethics (6)
- Finance (60)
- Fitness (32)
- Food (58)
- Gardening (20)
- Gay rights/essays (1)
- Government (273)
- Grief (28)
- Guns (34)
- happiness (114)
- Health (752)
- History (295)
- Holidays (65)
- Homeless (23)
- Hospice (6)
- Housing (4)
- Humor (991)
- Immigration (3)
- In the Neighborhood (439)
- Justice (35)
- Kindness (13)
- language (3)
- Law (102)
- literature (20)
- Love (1)
- Media (40)
- Memory Loss (3)
- Mental Health (10)
- Military (25)
- Morality (6)
- Movies (13)
- Music (187)
- Nature (172)
- nutrition (1)
- Obituaries (13)
- On Stage (7)
- Opera (22)
- Organ donation (1)
- Parks (30)
- Pets (14)
- Philanthropy (17)
- Philosophy (19)
- Photography (95)
- Plants (2)
- Poetry (35)
- Politics (545)
- Poverty (13)
- prayer (8)
- Race (87)
- Recipes (1)
- Recycling (1)
- refugees (1)
- Religion (70)
- Remembrances (59)
- Retirement (15)
- Safety (58)
- Satire (44)
- Scams (32)
- Science and Technology (203)
- Shopping (9)
- Singing (1)
- Skyline Info (45)
- sleep (9)
- Social justice (170)
- Space (3)
- Spiritual (16)
- Sport (13)
- Sports (49)
- Taxes (5)
- technology (12)
- terrorism (1)
- theater (12)
- Traffic (14)
- Transportation (71)
- Travel (32)
- Uncategorized (1,281)
- Volunteering (16)
- Voting (3)
- WACCRA (7)
- War (75)
Subscribe to Blog via Email
Join 183 other subscribers
Category Archives: Uncategorized
Jacquelyn Called Biden Her ‘Favorite’ & Said: ‘You Are Awesome, Oh My God’
Thanks to Diane S. and David Domke for mentioning this video! Jacquelyn, a New York Times elevator operator and security guard, endorsed Joe Biden while the former vice president was headed up to meet with the newspaper’s editorial board in a bid … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Comments Off on Jacquelyn Called Biden Her ‘Favorite’ & Said: ‘You Are Awesome, Oh My God’
Skyline.Notices
Free ticket – maybe too late A resident (Shirley Lashua, Assisted Living) just donated ONE ticket to today’s Symphony performance. Details: Sunday, January 19 a t 2:00pm Thomas Zehetmair Beethoven Violin Concerto Third Tier, Aisle S, Box B, Seat 4 … Continue reading
Skyline.Notices 1/16/20
Request to borrow Has anybody kept their pasta-making machine? Joan Conlon, who gave hers away, would love to borrow one. Reward: some spinach/basil pasta with olive oil and parmesan cheese. Let her know at conlonj@colorado.edu if you’re willing to loan … Continue reading
Forgotten games
Beaver: a game in which one shouts “beaver” when one sees a bearded person The Oxford English Dictionary provides the following citation for this use of the word beaver: This amazing game of Beaver … is played … by two persons, and … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Comments Off on Forgotten games
Scary floors
Thanks Gordon G. Wouldn’t recommend this interior decorator!
Posted in Uncategorized
1 Comment
Skyline.Notices 1/9/20
Give-aways The Seattle Chamber Music Society is holding its Winter Festival in Nordstrom Hall at Benaroya on January 17, 18 and 19 and the following weekend January 24, 25 and 26. The first weekend is devoted to part 1 of … Continue reading
Irish Craic and Humour
Thanks Gordon G.!
Posted in Uncategorized
Comments Off on Irish Craic and Humour
New Feature on Skyline725
Starting later this month, Skyline 25 Happenings will have a new page on Thursday every week. Edited by Put Barber, the page will consist of messages from residents and staff for residents. Some of the things that may appear are: … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
1 Comment
How do you like writing assignments?
Posted in Uncategorized
Comments Off on How do you like writing assignments?
Explaining a picture
Ah, kids. Thanks to Gordon G.
Posted in Uncategorized
Comments Off on Explaining a picture
‘Gotta Look?’
thanks to Barb W. for finding this!
Posted in Uncategorized
Comments Off on ‘Gotta Look?’
Where Love is, There God is Also – by Leo Tolstoy
Ed note: This inspirational short story seems appropriate for the Christmas season. It’s an unusually long post for this blog but I hope you have time to read it. IN a certain town there lived a cobbler, Martin Avdéiteh by … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Comments Off on Where Love is, There God is Also – by Leo Tolstoy
Seeing Green Lake on the northern horizon
Having sent off the book, finally, my mind wanders to such little projects. The book is EXTREME WEATHER: and what to do about it.
Posted in In the Neighborhood, Photography, Uncategorized
Comments Off on Seeing Green Lake on the northern horizon
800 Columbia progress
Posted in In the Neighborhood, Skyline Info, Uncategorized
Comments Off on 800 Columbia progress
Horizon House Winter Bridge Schedule
Posted in Entertainment, In the Neighborhood, Uncategorized
Comments Off on Horizon House Winter Bridge Schedule
Meet Spot, the robot dog that can run, hop and open doors
Thanks to Gordon G for sending this along.
Posted in Uncategorized
Comments Off on Meet Spot, the robot dog that can run, hop and open doors
Netflix’s 2019 Holiday Movies, Reviewed and Ranked
Ed note: If you are a Netflix streamer, please click on the updated Netflix page above to see what else is new on Netflix for December. The streaming service added a bunch of original holiday movies this year, some better … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Comments Off on Netflix’s 2019 Holiday Movies, Reviewed and Ranked
Christmas Concert Sunday December 15th
Skyline is providing bus transportation to and from the concert on Sunday the 15th. Sign up at the Activities Desk. The music will be provided by a 45-person choir and instrumentalists and is focused on our need to stand in … Continue reading
Posted in Holidays, Music, Uncategorized
Comments Off on Christmas Concert Sunday December 15th
Strap on those skis, a heavenly experience!
Posted in Uncategorized
Comments Off on Strap on those skis, a heavenly experience!
Report from WACCRA – hope we all join!
Posted in CCRC Info, Uncategorized
Comments Off on Report from WACCRA – hope we all join!
Enjoying the leaves
My niece near Philadelphia send me this one.
Posted in Uncategorized
Comments Off on Enjoying the leaves