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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
I wrote on Monday about the tragedies of Alzheimer’s, which are real and heart-wrenching. But
WordPress keeps excellent statistics for bloggers, and so I realized recently that today’s post would
By mid-May, the emigrants to Oregon in the 1840s had settled into a routine. They
For the Fourth of July when I was seven, someone gave my brother (who was
Late last winter, another couple asked my husband and me if we wanted to “go
I usually post about Oregon history during the last week of the month, but this
The Transcontinental Railroad was completed in 1869, linking California to the Eastern United States. But
When we moved into our new home in July 2019, I waged a campaign to
I used to debate with myself whether I would rather be a recluse or a
On one of the spring vacations my family took, we were in a gift shop
Because of the pandemic, over the past many months my husband and I have been
A few weeks ago, my family started hospice care for my mother. She had been
I’m not sure this is something to be proud of, but I believe our family
Making a living was important to pioneers on the frontier, just as it has been
On Tuesday, September 3, 1963, fifty-five years ago today, I started third grade. The first
September 21 is World Gratitude Day, a day celebrated since 1966 when an international group
“The only way to start is just to start – take the plunge.” With these
An article in The Wall Street Journal on May 10, 2014, by Michael M. Phillips,