What a difference five years can make in a life. On 1-9-05 I was a single girl. I’d been single a long time. On this cold and unusually snowy Seattle Sunday, my first date with Big Papa was on the calendar. We’d arranged for me to pick him …
Our house was built in 1898. It’s simple house, a style called Victorian Farmhouse. At less than 1000 square feet, with only two bedrooms and one bath, it’s cozy. It still has a dirt floor basement with a few small piles of coal that must have been used way back …

