The current Grays Harbor Community College catalog says this: Putting the ‘Story’ back in History – a Look at the Early Days around Shoalwater Bay and on the Long Beach Peninsula, the course will examine Long Beach Peninsula’s past through early...
Today was the beginning of Week Two in Nyel’s program: Twelve Weeks of Immobility. We are beginning to sort out some of the logistics – things that the two of us can manage together, and the things that one wimpy woman can do to make life...
When Nyel’s surgeon said, “I wouldn’t be at all unhappy if you told me at your next appointment that you had spent the intervening time as a complete couch potato,” we sort of laughed. Yesterday it began to sink in. Except for necessary transport...
Yesterday’s Chinook Observer was full of school news – all of it good, as far as I could see. Our Ocean Beach School District Superintendent has found a new job closer to where he lives; Ocean Park Elementary is considering year-round school; and...
In the early 60s when I began teaching in California, we still had time each day for Social Studies. There were prescribed ‘units’ that were to be taught at each level starting with “All About Me” in first grade – a comfortable place for...
And, especially hooray for our Senators who rejected changes to teacher/principal evaluations despite the ‘threat’ of the state losing a waiver from the federal No Child Left Behind law and potentially losing 40 million dollars in federal funding. ...
Gordon left me his ‘history books’ – mainly books about this area and mainly by local authors. From the copyright dates, it would seem that he acquired most of them when he owned the Bookvendor prior to selling it to us. There were fewer than a...
It is an ironic commentary on the bureaucratic state of things that in Washington teens cannot get a driver’s license until they have passed driver training programs involving a number of requirements – including 30 hours of classroom instruction –...
The snow is gone; the chickens are back; the house is still a wreck in the aftermath of yesterday’s House Concert. You know… just another Monday morning in Oysterville! I have always loved Mondays. The whole week seems to stretch out like the...
Yesterday we traveled up and back to Portland for the third time in as many weeks – heart doctoring for Nyel. We do these routine sorts of treks almost by rote, packing a thermos of decaf coffee and a lunch to eat along the way and taking our...
Our friend Susan Waters wears many hats. For the dozen or so years we have known her, we have seen her as wife of Randal Bays, mother of Willie and Owen Bays, accomplished musician (fiddler), science teacher and, most recently, graduate student....
I believe that Oysterville (and its environs) has more than its share of creative, talented, productive people. I don’t know if it’s our isolation or mild climate or the proximity of the sea that seems to draw artists and writers to the area. ...