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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
It’s hard not to be haunted by any book about the Nazi death camps. Lilac
We celebrated the major holidays in our family—Thanksgiving, Christmas, and Easter, but we didn’t celebrate
One of the earliest books that I remember my mother reading to me was The
I mentioned in an earlier post that the employee cafeteria at Hallmark Cards where I
Those of you who follow me on Facebook might know that on June 20 I
On my recent trip to Seattle, I went to the Museum of History and Industry
December 21 is Short Girl Appreciation Day. I am a short girl—5’1” in my stocking
Last year on the Fourth of July, my son was traveling in the Netherlands. He
I wrote last summer about my son’s first overnight camp experience, at the YMCA’s Camp
I wanted to write about Thanksgiving in Oregon in the 1840s, but didn’t find anything
The news reports recently have contained stories about the 2020 U.S. Census not reaching everyone.
In this crazy year, I feel guilty for the things I’m doing and also for
I started kindergarten in Corvallis, Oregon, in September 1961, when I was five-and-a-half. I was
A month or two ago I was working on the cover for my novel about
I’ve started decorating for Christmas, which is the only season for which I do much
I mentioned in a post in March that I was looking for the speech I
My husband’s maternal grandmother put tags and notes on many of her possessions, stating who
As I mentioned recently, my sister did most of the planning for our Baltic Sea