Dorothy’s Blog

When I told the meeting planner at the West Seattle Senior Center that I’d be bringing a red nose for everyone, she seemed more touched than I would have expected. Turned out she thought I’d said I’d be bringing each person a red rose.  This happens pretty often.  To tell the truth it’s hard for people to imagine why I’d want them to wear a red nose, and I’ve got to tell you it tookRead More

My home on the banks of the great Kootenai River Don’t miss my new feature – Stories from home.  Tales of my early days along the banks of the great Kootenai River.  Meet my favorite people, in my home town, 75 years ago. That’s even before Andy and Mayberry. http://tinyurl.com/c9uudru  Read More

Red Nose Time Saturday morning at the DuPont Library.  We had a great time sharing laughs and talking about my book, No Assembly Required.   We talked about the fact that everyone needs to build their own laugh collection of material they can depend upon to make them laugh.  We know that Dr. Norman Cousins wrote in the Healing Power of Humor that  he watched The Three Stooges and Abbot and Costello to give himselfRead More

Ward off right – or left – depending. I have a history of falls in unusual places.   I’ve fallen going upstairs. I’ve fallen going downstairs. I’ve fallen just standing around. Once I fell into the Dairy Case at the supermarket, displacing several gallons of milk and completely demolishing 13 gallons of ice cream. I’ve accepted these unexpected spills as a fact of my life but when I spent a recent holiday in the Emergency Room,Read More

Today I bravely drove to West Seattle to meet the great folks at the Senior Center of West Seattle where I’ll be speaking for their annual fundraiser on April 3.  What a great place.  There’s so much going on.  They have their own self sustaining cafe with homemade soup everyday and fresh made sandwiches.  There was a Bingo game going on but they’re famous for their Rainbow Bingo games led by well known Female ImpersonatorRead More

Here’s the link to the original “Doesn’t have a Prayer” column in The News Tribune.http://www.thenewstribune.com/2013/02/03/2460226/even-indestructible-plants-dont.htmlRead More

I wrote in this month’s News Tribune about my prayer plant that just wouldn’t pray.  I was afraid it was an atheist.  But John called me from his nursery in Graham, and said that he knew what the trouble was – “It’s too wet, he said, and it isn’t getting enough sun.” I moved the plant, and now it’s rolled up very devoutly.  If you look closely you can see the little tube all rolledRead More

Dorothy and Ed Hauge on the set of My Home Town in Fife, WA I didn’t begin to develop signs of altitude sickness until we started the final upward climb to the summit.  Breathlessly, I reached my destination, gratefully paid three dollars for   a bottle of water, and threw myself down to rest.  “No, Mom,”  my daughter said, tugging at my arm. “These aren’t our seats.  Ours are up one more level.” This  yearRead More