Just Some Catching Up To Do

Helen sent us a link to a terrific commentary done on coffee. The sentiment is wonderful and the story portion is so much like my experience. I loved it!

I have been helplessly tuned into Richard and Sherri's blog as well and my heart goes out to Sherri and her family for the absolute despair that goes with watching someone you love succumb to cancer. For those of you who have not read the blog, Richard was diagnosed with brain cancer over a year ago. He has struggled valiantly with this disease and is losing the race. It has been a very hard blog to follow because their pain is so alive on the page but this is a remarkable couple and family and although I have never met them I feel they have become friends. I hope they find peace.

I recently sent out an invite to some artists on Whidbey Island and I received back a reply from some of the artists and one of them sent me a link to a few blogs that definitely should be of note... The first blog is from Diane Diane is a fellow artist on the island and her blog is terrific. It has some absolutely great links to it. Check out this site on cars! Well, Okay, artcars! I keep threatening to do art (my art of course!) with David's and my Volvo!!

So, I have caught up with a few things I wanted to pass on to you. We are still looking for artists for the co-op and I am still trying to find people interested in doing the mystery club. Let me know if you are interested. Talk to ya soon.

Blogs from Whidbey to you.

Rockhoppers Presents Tom Trimbath

Balancing money and life is a tough act. Writing about it takes a different set of tools. Tom Trimbath, the author of Dream. Invest. Live. read from his book and talked about the practicalities and implications of writing about personal finance. Here's the video:

Book synopsis: Define your dreams. Invest your money. Live your life. Define your own dream, and you can ignore the trappings most people chase. Invest your money yourself, and you can take advantage of your skills and experiences. Respecting your own knowledge and working to a clear goal that you defined gives you an advantage over the investment titans. America's pioneers understood the rewards available to those who also understood risk and the frontier. They built better lives for themselves. They can be role models for those of us in this modern world. Properly balancing your money, your goals, and your time can let you live a life now while you journey towards your dream. Pioneers had to bounce along in a covered wagon and survive brutal winters. Our journeys don't have to be as risky and can be much more rewarding.

Tom Trimbath is the author of the nature series Twelve Months at Barclay Lake, Twelve Months at Lake Valhalla, and Twelve Months at Merritt Lake, and the cultural essay Just Keep Pedaling (stories learned from bicycling across America). Thanks to frugal parents and some insightful reading, he was able to leave a life as an aerospace engineer before he was 40 and become a writer, photographer, entrepreneur, and cautious adventurer. Autographed copies of all Tom's books are available at Rockhoppers.

Dream, Invest, Live on Whidbey Island.

Comic Tuesday

Today's comic is Gene's Journal, a comic about a young Gene Roddenberry. Gene has some annoying aliens 'helping' him through his childhood. The comic updates Monday & Wednesday, and has only 72 episodes, so the archive is manageable.

The storyline is pretty simple, and I think a familiarity with 'Star Trek' is helpful with some of the humor, but other than that it's a pretty good comic with lots of features on the site.

Comics on Whidbey Island.

Rockhoppers Presents Country Chaz and Blues

Great music this weekend from Chaz Glass. He's now calling his 'band' Country Chaz and Blues. Excellent show, as usual from Chaz. I especially like his own compositions. Here's the video:

Music on Whidbey Island.