Kara P.

  • Wide Open Spaces

    I was lucky to grow up in a DIY environment since the women in my family have all been blessed with something like a “creating” gene. Smells of baking and crocheted projects lying about were just a part of my childhood. My dad was the fixer-upper working in the garage or the garden out back.… Continue reading

  • Hunt Like A Woman

    “Something will have gone out of us as a people if we ever let the remaining wilderness be destroyed…we simply need that wild country available to us, even if we never do more than drive to its edge and look in.” – Wallace Stegner (The Sound of Mountain Water) Growing up as a child, my grandfather would… Continue reading

  • Running like a girl

    “Baby, every day you’re training to get the gold… That’s why your body’s crazy… But you can’t run from yourself, that’s where it’s difficult.” (from TKO by Justin Timberlake) I’ve been running on the elliptical for about two years and during that time, along with eating healthy and treating my body well, I’ve lost about… Continue reading

  • I Am Woman

    ~posted by Kara I was never a die-hard fan of graphic novels or comics. I remember in high school I was convinced by a friend to read Peach Girl and I found it entertaining enough, but not enough to turn me into a fangirl. As I get older, and I find less time to sit and read,… Continue reading

  • Care For A Show?

    I just recently went for the second time to see the Can-Can Castaways in Pike Place Market. Not only are their performances amazing…and their costumes, but the venue makes you feel as if you are stepping into a roaring 20’s speakeasy. Their current show CHICHI is a play on that very era of fringe dresses and… Continue reading

  • Crafternoons

    I’ve started getting together with a friend for “Crafternoons” where we work on projects –everything from painting to sewing to decorating with silver leaf. While we work on our projects we’ll talk and laugh, but also just sit in comfortable silence. We tend to do a lot of daydreaming as well…owning our own farm on… Continue reading

  • And We All Fall Down

    We stumble, we fall, we dust ourselves off, and it’s not at all graceful. When it comes to movies I very rarely feel as if the characters portrayed could ever be real or even relate to me. They are too perfect, too nice, too everything…In my opinion there isn’t a woman out there that hasn’t… Continue reading

  • Wave Upon Wave

    The 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake was an undersea mega thrust earthquake that occurred on Sunday, December 26, with an epicenter off the west coast of Sumatra, Indonesia. That quake caused the worst tsunami in history, resulting in 280,000 lives lost. Two items in our collection tell us the story of that disaster with very different experiences: Sonali… Continue reading

  • Movie Mondays: Guns, Car Chases And Psychopaths! What More Could a Girl Want?

    I’ve always been one of those girls that’s enjoyed a good action flick, but I have to admit I’m kind of picky…shocking, I know.  I tend to prefer campy humor without sacrificing intelligence, an edge of your seat ride that should involve chase scenes, guns, and fire, and it wouldn’t hurt to have a slight… Continue reading

  • Addicted to the Series

    These books are in no way related to each other except for the fact that they are series that I am completely addicted to! Touched by an Alien is fun and a complete guilty pleasure for me. When I told people how much I loved the series they just kept saying, “Really, Kara!? Touched by… Continue reading

  • Romantic Wednesdays: Ex-Box

    Now it’s not a gaming console, it’s that little box in the back of your closet or in the storage unit at your apartment, that little box of doom and gloom. I’ve come to believe that most of us have a Pandora’s box of heartbreak. It has the power, once opened, to bring back all… Continue reading

  • Time travel simplified

    Back back back back back back back back in time                                                 I can dream, it’s a simple thing                                                                                          I’m building a time machine… The ad reads: Wanted: Somebody to go back in time with me. This is not a joke. P.O. Box 91 Ocean View, WA 99393. You’ll get paid after we get back. Must bring your… Continue reading

  • The Life of Words

    A word is dead when it’s been said, some say. I say it just begins to live that day. – Emily Dickinson The characters I read about come to life in my imagination. I sometimes dream about them, their lives continuing to resonate with me long after I finish the book. Some characters move me… Continue reading

  • Death Comes Knocking

    Because I could not stop for Death, He kindly stopped for me. The Carriage held but just ourselves And Immortality. -Emily Dickinson A Dirty Job by Christopher Moore is an edge-of-your-seat read. After seeing a man in mint green at his wife’s hospital bedside – a man he shouldn’t be able to see – Charlie Asher’s life… Continue reading

  • Life Is A Highway

    Well, life’s like a road that you travel on There’s one day here and the next day gone Sometimes you bend, sometimes you stand Sometimes you turn your back to the wind I was a daddy’s girl growing up and there were two places I could find my dad in the house: the basement or… Continue reading

  • Library Choo-choo!

    Traveling north, traveling north to find you Train wheels beating, the wind in my eyes Don’t even know what I’ll find when I get to you I’m in love with trains. They still have a little romance and mystery about them and a laid-back atmosphere that you don’t often get when traveling by plane or car. Continue reading

  • Who We Become

    “We had been so close to missing each other, he and I. He had turned out to be the greatest gift of all.”        -The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate There are people we interact with in life that help us become the people we are supposed to be. While some are with us for a lifetime… Continue reading

  • A Visit to New Orleans, Part 2

    (Find Part 1 of this post here) “To be engaged in some small way in the revival of one of the great cities of the world is to live a meaningful existence by default.”-Chris Rose, 1 Dead in Attic The third most important is Hurricane Katrina and the toll it left on the city. Even though… Continue reading