I’ve been watching in horror at the empty grocery store aisles during the past couple of weeks, as our state — the so-called epicenter of COVID-19 — has gone from a very chill place to live to the nucleus of panicked over shoppers.

It’s hard to find the right things to say at this moment in time.

With the story I covered on a dog being killed due to aggressive behavior and the K-9 who was also shot (and, luckily, saved), I can’t help but worry about my own four-legged fur babies.

As spring approaches, the subject has come up again and still, the answer is as tangled as a weedy garden.

Last week, I had the opportunity to go back to high school.

It’s been four days since I saw Buddy. He is either on a walk-about, he has run away, or someone has taken my rascally, shaggy yorkie puppy.

March 10 is Washington state’s presidential voting day — and a day to declare party alliance.

I’ve been home for about a year now and while I was planning my next move to Spokane or even Seattle, it never occurred to me that I might make some roots back home.

Each winter for the past couple of years, the Yakima Valley Libraries has hosted a Winter Reading Challenge from Jan. 1 to March 31.

I threw out my old diaries recently.

I have a date for the day after Valentine’s Day — an engagement with a plethora of chocolatey goodness.

Walking back into Sunnyside after four years of studying overseas, I couldn’t help but have the stomach-knotting feeling of a new girl on her first day of high school.

Being invited as a guest speaker to Sun Valley Elementary School’s kindergarten student of the month assembly was an exciting honor – one that I will proudly remember as my rite of community passage, Tuesday morning, Jan 28.

At the best of times, Buddy, my infamous Yorkie, is a tough canine to take on a walk. On icy mornings, there is no way the little guy is stepping anywhere outside. If it is cold.

After much nervousness about when the first snow would fall, we can relax, it has happened.