by Alice Nine | A9 Journal |
SOL25-1223 In case you’ve never experienced using one of these solar laundry dryers, let me assure you that using it requires skill. Here’s what you need to know and be able to do to run a solar clothes dryer. You must know how to clip the clothespins so...
by Alice Nine | A9 Journal |
SOL25-1216 We check into our hotel and then head to Walmart to pick up a couple items. As I hunt for the items I need, Carl goes to get me a hand-held shopping basket. But he returns with a clank-clank-clanking shopping cart. He leaves it with me saying he is going to...
by Alice Nine | A9 Journal |
SOL25-1209 Motion stops. Doors slide open. The PA announces, “Exit here for gates A22 through A39.” Pulling my rollaboard, I step through the doors, into the Skylink station, and walk across the platform. There I pause. Sun streams through floor to ceiling...
by Alice Nine | A9 Journal, In My Classroom |
SOL25-1202 It had been a full morning. Full. But good. The productive sort of good. Seven siblings and cousins from kindergarten through eighth grade have been busy with their lessons. Math. Language arts. Science. Social studies. T6, who is 7 years old, is working...
by Alice Nine | A9 Journal |
SOL25-1118 This is the place our family often visits. Four generations. This is the place where sea lions soak in the sun on seastacks or swim in the shallow water near the shore. They bark at us; we bark back. This is the place where the beach is smooth, round, gray...
by Alice Nine | A9 Journal |
SOL25-1104 Photo: From our beach house deck, Rockaway Beach, Oregon, Spring 2025. There’s something unforgettably spell-binding about it all . . . Sky evanescing into the endless seaSpray from foamy waves cresting and crashingSurf relentlessly roaringSea gulls...
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