When the world gets confusing it is wise to go to a sacred and safe place. Yesterday felt like one of those days, so Chester and I headed out to the rookery on the edge of Willow Lake here in Prescott. Great blue herons and cormorants are nesting there now.
This place is lively and [...]

Paddling With a Camera is a blog I just discovered thanks to ProBloggers recent Group Writing Project.
I was zipping around in Marek Uliasz’s site, initially psyched at having found a blog devoted to two of my favorite out-of-office activities. That would be, clearly, paddling my kayak and photography. Then I found the part about kayaking [...]

I have a Chesapeake Bay Retriever, one of a number of “loose-lipped” breeds. No, he isn’t the author of my blog “Loosely Speaking.” My blog isn’t even named after him.
When you have a loose-lipped canine, that means you have slobber spraying everywhere. I mean everywhere. Sometimes you forget that you haven’t hosed your walls [...]

Here’s how it works when you own your own business:
Flip flop the day you have planned so you can get together for a last minute lunch with a friend who’s going out of town.
Load clean dog who (just had a bath yesterday and smells so nice) into clean truck (which also finally just had a [...]

Of all the thrills. Last night Rosanne Cash performed right here in Prescott Arizona at the renovated historic Elks Theater. Wow. Fantastic personal music, fun, sassy, great.
Earlier in the day, an unexpected opportunity for a quick coffee break arose with a friend just in town for the day, and then dinner with her and another [...]