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2026-05-13
OMOIDE is the writing group, started in 1991 for the benefit of the Seattle community, publishing stories for the next generations of families and Washington State school children. The stories featu...
2026-05-02
One night, last week, I watched a Hallmark movie on my computer, alone in my room. The divorced Hispanic restaurant owner in Seattle watches his daughter’s school teacher breaking up a romantic rela...
2026-04-26
“It starts with being less unhappy”, according to Arthur Brooks. So I’m deciding to make a list of the activities that make me happy. I love conversations and particularly in person. Therefore, I sch...
2026-04-15
An eagle swooping around Lake Washington on the air currents outside my window, I’m lifted and filled with “En” gratitude and with nature. It also symbolizes the draw to be American. “En (縁) in Ja...
2026-04-07
My mother said on our weekly phone call, “Grandpa told me he didn’t want you to go to UCLA because the boys down there wear jeans.” We never talked long because calling was expensive in 1959. This...
2026-04-03
This is a picture of our wedding reception line on December 24th, Christmas Eve 1961. Sam and I are at the Moore Hotel banquet room in Eastern Oregon, where my parents were still living in Ontario, O...
2026-03-27
Listening to podcasts has been my go to, for assuaging my loneliness with “education” since Sam passed eight years ago. Listening to Arthur Brooks, professor of Happiness at Harvard, and taking his pe...
2026-03-23
A year ago, March 2025, after seven years of avoiding Mercerdale Park, because that's where Sam and I walked daily, before he died the end of 2017. This day, last year, was so beautiful as I drove to...
2026-03-13
Today, March 13, 2026, is another remarkable Friday! It’s been snowing all morning so we’re home enjoying the view and our dog is loving it and has been playing out on our deck all morning. It’s the o...
2026-03-09
Emotion is a complex, temporary psychological and physiological state and physical functioning is a reaction to internal or external events. Emotions influence our physical health! Alan Watkins i...