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Treasured Time with Family Visitors
This past weekend, my son and his wife visited from Brooklyn, New York. They are
June 17, 2026
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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
November is National Family Stories Month. So we should tell our stories to family and
I wrote in January 2019 about my hesitation over my husband’s Christmas gift to me
A year ago I was suffering from the worst stomach flu I’d had in a
A friend of mine in Washington State recently posted a picture of huckleberries she had
Fifteen years ago, in July 1998, our family took a hiking vacation in Switzerland. We
My husband was the fifth generation in his family born in Saline County, Missouri. After
While browsing in my local library recently, I saw the book, The Tao of Writing,
As a writer of historical fiction, one of the issues I struggle with is how
Christmas 1978 was the first Christmas I spent away from my parents’ home. My husband
This post is mostly about The Buddha in the Attic, by Julie Oksuka, which my
I think it is human nature that we try to make sense of our world,
The big city newspaper when I grew up was The Oregonian, a Portland newspaper. My
In an earlier post, I mentioned situations where I was confronted by the fact that
The Transcontinental Railroad was completed in 1869, linking California to the Eastern United States. But
I thumbed through a photo album of my son’s baby pictures, trying to think of
I mentioned in a post in March that I was looking for the speech I
I only recall one summer driving trip in my childhood to California. We made a
As I looked through the photographs my father digitized, I came across this picture of