Last year it was the windstorm ... this year it's a short but very much to-the-point letter ...

Driftwood at high tide just west of Oyehut and north of Ocean Shores

Yeh, I well remember the driftwood at high tide just north of Ocean Shores after the storm last year. And, as I read over the short letter addressed to several of us as an "early warning" from the Vice President for Instruction of our relatively small two-year college wherein I teach (although at a slightly more remote satellite location), I see the storm ahead.

As many as several hundred of us statewide--especially those of us who might be deemed easily regarded as surplus by both the Governor and her lieutenants since we teach persons who are politically nonexistent (have no voting right)--will likely fall under the knife of budget cuts required by an almost six billion dollar deficit in the State of Washington.

Just driftwood at high tide.

Just exactly how does a "reverse mortgage" work anyway?