“Take off your shirt.” I looked at him in disbelief. “You take off yours, I’ll take off mine.” I scrutinized the number of people in the room… I’ve always been a shy person, and even at 20, there was no way I was stripping down in a sports bar full of men, especially since I was the bartender, and …
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Escapees RV Club & Mail Forwarding Service
Last updated: January 9, 2026 (Harvest Hosts acquisition + event updates + Texas inspection changes) If you’ve never considered traveling full-time (or even “half-time” for months at a stretch), you probably haven’t considered the logistics of boring-but-critical things like mail, taxes, …
Space Center Houston | Johnson Space Center
Star Trek or Star Wars? Does it matter? A good space story always captures the imagination. And now, with private companies entering the space race, getting further into space seems even more possible. As with most of the world, I've long had an interest in NASA since watching the moon landing, …
The Business of Death
"'Tis impossible to be sure of any thing but Death and Taxes," The Cobbler of Preston by Christopher Bullock (1716) The first funeral I attended without my family was for a schoolmate during high school. As I walked into the viewing room, I heard the wailing. His mother was hugging every person …
Ghosts of the Past
While standing in your present, you can't possibly know who will impact you in the future or whether you will have an effect on those who have just come into your life. Only when you look backwards can you see the strands that tie you together. In 1992, my husband and I built a house an hour and …
Love Butchart Gardens on Vancouver Island 
I’ve loved Butchart Gardens since I first saw it as a child. It was unlike any gardens I’d seen anywhere and 45 years later I can still say the same. My last visit was the summer of 1987… until this year! The first time I’ve seen Butchart basking in it’s holiday glow, alit with more Christmas …
