Let’s talk some more about home cooking. “My father was a meat and potatoes guy and my mother seldom strayed into unfamiliar territory farther than rice and beans,” wrote Owen Fullmer. “I can’t bring myself to criticize my mother’s cooking but when I joined the Navy in 1971 I couldn’t believe how wonderful the chow was.”
Let’s recall a couple of memorable long-distance snowballs. Today the Rev. Martin Wells is the Lutheran bishop of Eastern Washington and Idaho. But back in the mid-1990s, he helped oversee Holden Village, a Lutheran retreat center and gathering place in the North Cascades. That is where our scene unfolds.
