I’m looking out my window at the grayest of days. Most of the Puget Sound lowlands are getting a lot of rain. The snow level is currently about 4000’ but it will drop to 500’ tonight. That means we’ll only … Continue reading
Author Archives: Grace
Reflections on Risk
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One of the books in my personal library that I’ve actually read is Getting Risk Right: Understanding the Science of Elusive Health Risks, by Geoffrey C. Kabbat. It wasn’t the book on risk that I needed at the time, but … Continue reading
Waiting for Snow
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I’m a bit past the age of waiting for Santa, but I’ll never be past the age of waiting for snow. As the weather forecast evolved over this past week, I kept checking each day (actually several times a day) … Continue reading
Still Afraid to Eat Out?
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We are still eating at home. We used to eat out a lot, and I miss it. But I’m starting to rethink things a bit. I figure that after the Omicron spike I expect to see from holiday travel, it … Continue reading
911 Concern Resolved!
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Have you ever called the office of your city council member to complain? Did you get results? I’m not especially fond my CM, but I have to give his staff a compliment. I called with a concern and I got … Continue reading
Are We Doing Covid Wrong?
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Did we get Covid wrong from the get-go? Did we get it right at the beginning, but now it’s wrong? What seems obvious to some is not so obvious to me. I don’t think we’ll know which approach to the … Continue reading
Does This Dream Mean I’m Racist?
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Does a racist dream mean I’m well and truly racist? Please, no! Have you ever remembered a dream but wish you didn’t? That would be me, this morning. Some dreams are so weird that I can’t stitch them back together … Continue reading
The Juries Have Spoken
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Hey, folks, nothing like a Thanksgiving Holiday to get juries to finish their business. I’ve read a bunch of articles about both the Kyle Rittenhouse trial and the trial of the three people charged in the killing of Ahmaud Arbery. … Continue reading
Trust No One
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If you have yet to receive an email from a friend asking you to buy a gift card for them because they’re sick and can’t get out, count yourself lucky. I fell for just such a scam a year ago, … Continue reading
First Hill: Out and About
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I actually got dressed before noon today. I had a lunch date with an old friend and a new friend, then other things this afternoon, then a book group in the evening. But a book I ordered was waiting for … Continue reading
Coming to Grips With Covid
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Covid is endemic. It’s never going away. So now what. I’m triple-vaxxed, and mentally, I’m starting to lose a bit of my anxiety. Charlie and I showed our “vaccine passports” at a Starbucks this week so we could sit down … Continue reading
Why I’m Right
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Why am I so often right while you are so often wrong? That is the question, isn’t it. Kathryn Schulz did an excellent job of explaining why it’s so hard to be wrong in her book Being Wrong. I refer … Continue reading