Ash Year
Like most in the Willamette Valley, I awoke on Tuesday morning to a new reality: a world filled with ash. Somehow it seems sadly fitting for this burnt up year. So much lost to the pandemic -- nearly 200,000 lives in this country alone, plus countless events, weddings, funerals, graduations, sport events, most political rallies (do we really miss those?) retirement parties (I did miss that) and...