Family
Treasured Time with Family Visitors
This past weekend, my son and his wife visited from Brooklyn, New York. They are
June 17, 2026
2 Comments
Menu
This past weekend, my son and his wife visited from Brooklyn, New York. They are
Last week, I had cataract surgery on my right eye. The left eye is scheduled
My father used to tell me, “It never rains in the Pacific Northwest.” That was
I’ve written before about the importance of reading in my family when I was growing
I’ve mentioned before that I called my maternal grandmother Nanny Winnie. How I came to
I wrote last week about getting Covid after four years of apparently avoiding it. Unfortunately,
The fictional family in my work-in-progress lives in a large house in Portland, Oregon. They
In January 1943, the U.S. Army selected the town of Hanford, Washington, as the site
The discovery of gold at Sutter’s Mill in California was first reported on March 15,
I was surprised to get a notice from WordPress.com recently congratulating me on my 9th
Under traditional English and American property law, married women had no rights to own property—real
Sometime during my sophomore or junior year of high school, I was required to take
Once again, during the holidays I noticed that my children are now adults, no longer
I know it is un-American, but I do not like orange juice. The pulp in
Here’s a brief Christmas scene from Now I’m Found that takes place on Christmas Day
I have been to all but three states in the U.S. I still need to
On Saturday, March 2, 2019, other family members and I attended the Friends of Arrow
Last Friday was our first Independence Day in Seattle. The staff at our retirement community
We have all had times when life changed in an instant—an accident, illness, natural disaster,
When I was cleaning out my parents’ house after my father’s death in January 2015,
My husband-to-be and I started dating about a month before my twenty-first birthday. We were