Virginia Walters

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Life in the Pedestrian Lane: Turn the radio on

Radio had something for everyone.

 

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Life in the Pedestrian Lane: Eggs and taxes

The days are a little longer, the temperatures a few degrees warmer.

 

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Life in the Pedestrian Lane: January’s done

This has been the strangest January I can remember, and to hear others, apparently it’s pretty unprecedented.

 

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Life in the Pedestrian Lane: More of the same?

I have no particular expectations for the New Year

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Virginia Walters (Courtesy photo)

Life in the Pedestrian Lane: A Little cheese with the whine?

No matter which side of the political fence we stand on, as a generation we are intolerant of pity parties

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Virginia Walters (Courtesy photo)

Life in the Pedestrian Lane: Let’s give thanks…

Thanksgiving has come to mean “feast” in most people’s eyes.

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Virginia Walters (Courtesy photo)

Life in the Pedestrian Lane: It’s a rank choice

In a little more than three weeks we will be voting again for state and national legislators and for president

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Virginia Walters (Courtesy photo)

Life in the Pedestrian Lane: Aging gracefully

I had a birthday this past week.

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Virginia Walters (Courtesy photo)

Life in the Pedestrian Lane: As Time Goes By…

The world was endless with simply a dollar in an envelope

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Virginia Walters (Courtesy photo)

Life in the Pedestrian Lane: Good old summertime

The lupines are crazy this year, as were the dandelions.

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Virginia Walters (Courtesy photo)

Life in the Pedestrian Lane: This and that

Organizations are running out of people to keep them going

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Virginia Walters (Courtesy photo)

Life in the Pedestrian Lane: April is Poetry Month …

T.S. Eliot had it right: April is the cruelest month

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Virginia Walters (Courtesy photo)

Life in the Pedestrian Lane: The kids came back

I miss having kids around to do an egg coloring day

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Virginia Walters (Courtesy photo)

Life in the Pedestrian Lane: Perspective

To prefer one thing over another does not make the unpreferred bad, or unhealthy, or criminal, it just means you have found something better for you

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Virginia Walters (Courtesy photo)

Life in the Pedestrian Lane: Finally! It’s February

True to form, January was only double the length of the other months

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Virginia Walters (Courtesy photo)

Life in the Pedestrian Lane: A few more pills

All the people I visit with these days have the same story

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Virginia Walters (Courtesy photo)

Life in the Pedestrian Lane: Noise

The first 10 years we were in Alaska we lived remotely

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Virginia Walters (Courtesy photo)

Life in the Pedestrian Lane: I guess it’s fall

This time of year I always think of fall when I was a kid

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Virginia Walters (Courtesy photo)

Life in the Pedestrian Lane: Destination not journey

Reviewing the last column, I wondered when we started to avoid driving

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Virginia Walters (Courtesy photo)

Life in the Pedestrian Lane: The road goes on forever…

These trips have given us a unique look at the drive from Kenai to Anchorage

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