Mill Creek resident Mary Kay Voss and Cowlitz tribe member Dr. Robin LaDue released their co-written book “Totems of September” on September 29, 2013, a historical fiction of personal stories that "examine the events of September 11, 2001 and the aftermath from a non-political viewpoint."

Listen to Chicago sing, “Does anyone really know what time it is?”. Or Queen perform, “Bohemian Rhapsody.” Two of my favorite songs. Both of them talk about the relative futility and “unknowingness” of life.

Designing a beautiful garden or just a container requires the same planning. Color, form, line and texture are the basic elements of any good design and they are found in many forms in the plant kingdom.

Last week I wrote about travelling to a distant galaxy to meet up with aliens who sent us plans for a “space travel” machine so we could go and meet them and start down that long path to true “discovery” (about why are we here).

Well, I’d like to look into that a bit more. As 99.99% of those reading this have no interest in Albert Einstein and his “general theory of relativity” (although we all know his famous equation: E=mc²), suffice it to say that when you travel really fast, say 9/10ths the speed of light a couple of interesting things happen.