
Setting Up Another New Laptop
A couple of months ago, I noticed that the laptop I bought in 2021 was
A couple of months ago, I noticed that the laptop I bought in 2021 was
I’ve mentioned before that I spent two of my birthdays at Cannon Beach, Oregon—my 12th
On New Year’s Day, I posted that my resolution for 2025 was to vote “present”
I wrote an earlier post about my son’s birth. I put his first baby picture
I am pleased to report that I finished the third draft of my work-in-progress this
I’ve written several posts about childhood trips to visit my grandparents in Pacific Grove, California.
We don’t know what will suddenly bring a dormant memory to consciousness. For Proust, it
My website is now seven and a half years old, and the blog posts date
One of the things I found in going through my father’s papers was some genealogies
I never knew my great-grandmother Cecelia Ryan Strachan, my maternal grandmother’s mother. In fact, Cecelia
Emigrants to Oregon in the 1840s knew that if they reached Independence Rock (located in
My youngest sibling is eleven-and-a-half years younger than me, and he was not yet six
Tomorrow would have been my father’s 86th birthday, so I have been thinking about him.
Although I prefer the ocean, I enjoy being in the mountains, too. Mountains show us
Did you get too many pears for Christmas? They are a wonderful treat this time
I don’t typically write back-to-back posts about “national days” and similar occasions, although it is
As I mentioned in my last post, my granddaughter just passed her first birthday. My
A new novel raising Thomas Jefferson’s slave mistress to “Founding Mother” is now a Kindle
I had planned to write a family story for today’s post, but life has a
As I sat in the dentist’s office a couple of weeks ago waiting for the
My daughter has always been a focused individual. I’ve described before her intense effort at