Today is Sunday, December 27, 2020. In local news, there's still a snowy owl from the Arctic hanging out in our neighborhood. She favors a roof two blocks away. In national news, an American dies every 30 seconds from COVID-19. Ten Million Americans are at risk for losing their unemployment benefits, as Trump dithers instead of signing the relief package. The "voter fraud" claims have failed to get any traction. Christmas was two days ago, and I spent some of the holiday scan

Today is Sunday, December 20th, 2020. The historic Cliff House restaurant, which first opened 157 years ago, will close. 180 employees will lose their jobs, just in time for the holiday season. Years ago, Riley used to work there as a cook. He also had a sexual relationship with a waitress there, which he writes about in his journal. "The half-siblings" as I call our group, are always wondering if there are more of us out there. There's an actor that lives here in Seattle, bo

When I was young, I would watch TV and wonder if my birth mother was an actress. In fact, my high school Spanish teacher told me I looked a

Today is Sunday, December 6th. Our 45th president still claims wide spread voter fraud, and that he actually won the election. He has pardoned Michael Flynn (Flynn lied to the FBI), the junk bond king Michael Milken, and other rich, powerful white men. There seems to be an attempt to "pre-pardon" his lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, and his three eldest children. I made up the term "pre-pardon" because the whole concept is confusing and I had no idea that was even a thing. POTUS, in an