Patricia Harrelson

One year ago on October 9, 2007, I started this blog with a post called Shakespeare TaDum, describing what I’d learned during a trip to Ashland OR at the Shakespeare Festival. Amazingly, yesterday I was offered a free trip to … Continue reading

A little over a year ago, Cindy’s niece Ashley moved in with us to go to college. She loaned me a book called the Faith Club for a trip we were about to take to Hawaii. The book was by … Continue reading

Columbia College hosted the Wild & Scenic Environmental Film Festival, a traveling festival that included 6 hours of films from the annual festival in Nevada City. We went last night but didn’t make it through all the movies which lasted … Continue reading

My friend Larry sent me an email message with the 2008 Mensa Word List, posted in the Washington Post. Each year, the Post asks readers to take any word from the dictionary, alter it by adding, subtracting, or changing one … Continue reading

My back spasms in response to stress. At Ashley’s funeral after I got up to speak, my back went into such an intense spasm that I couldn’t breathe. I thought I was going to faint. That was a sudden dramatic … Continue reading

Why is it that every office, retail store, and restaurant feels that they have to pipe in music and/or have a TV on? Yesterday, I had occasion to go with Anna Mae to 2 doctors’ offices, a hair salon, an … Continue reading

Coincidentally this morning, two blogs that I regularly read had comments about Barak Obama. The first was on my friend Gayle Brandies’ blog. I met Gayle in my MFA graduate program at Antioch University. She was our graduation speaker, chosen … Continue reading

Boy, I sure have accomplished a lot staying close to home and waiting for this baby to come. Here is a bulleted list of the big stuff I’ve done. Completed several major writing projects and wrote 3 play reviews; Organized … Continue reading

There is a little town in northwest Oregon called Philomath. The word means lover of learning and is an apt description of the attitude I embraced on a recent trip to the Pacific Northwest with my friend Kathy. I already … Continue reading

Last week, I went shopping with Anna Mae and Taylor which really got me thinking about consumer math. Throughout the trip, I helped the girls calculate tax and sales-off percentages on items they were considering. Not only that, they were … Continue reading