By Julie Freestone and Rudi Raab Julie says she thinks she’s always known that if there was one period in her parents’ lives that may have hung darkly over their heads, it wasn’t the Holocaust, but rather the Depression. Her parents married (secretly) in 1929. They both worked for the…

By Rudi Raab and Julie Freestone (and some of you) After we published the blog about dreaming in the era of CoVid, and we said that Rudi, who usually dreams a lot and remembers his dreams, wasn’t remembering anything, he announced (in the middle of the night), “I dreamed about…

By Julie Freestone and Rudi Raab Naturally, people usually bring home souvenirs from trips they take. One of our favorite stories is about our friends Janet and Kristen, Scotty and Lizzy, who went to Italy two years ago. They asked if we wanted anything and Julie said flippantly, “oh sure…

By Julie Freestone and Rudi Raab The term “new normal” has been tossed around a lot since the World Health Organization announced that we were experiencing a pandemic and sheltering-in-place became the law of the land in most places. …

By Rudi Raab and Julie Freestone It’s a chaotic time — at least out there in the world and in our email, where we get comments of all sorts about our blogs, but not necessarily in any kind of sequence. …

By Julie Freestone and Rudi Raab Our blog about what we’re watching on TV took some folks down memory lane — and resulted in a lot of recommendations for things we could be watching. How about the old TV shows? Julie’s Cousin Alice on Bainbridge Island, WA, responded with her…

By Julie Freestone and Rudi Raab The National Geographic — along with dozens of other publications — recently took a look at dreaming during the pandemic. “With hundreds of millions of people sheltering at home during the corona virus pandemic, some dream experts believe that withdrawal from our usual environments…

By Rudi Raab and Julie Freestone We are finding that some things we might not even have appreciated a few months ago are working out surprisingly well — and others are not. On the plus side, for example, our friend Jane, who has been in quarantine and hasn’t left her…

By Rudi Raab and Julie Freestone Let’s start off by saying that we didn’t exactly sign a pledge, but somehow we silently evolved to an agreement that we would not enter a store of any kind during the pandemic shelter-in-place. We weren’t marching around with signs saying “flatten the curve,”…