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2026-02-07
Last Saturday was another district competition at Kent-Ridge High School. The 23 members of our Mercer Island Drill Team had breakfast at our house at 7am before leaveing for Kent on the bus. There ...
2026-02-07
This week was Super Bowl Week in football. I was moved to tears when I heard this one interview with Mike Macdonald, Seahawk coach. He was asked about his relationship with his wife. His answer, “She ...
2026-02-02
I’m being asked: 1. What is the message that you hope to convey to the next generation through Sam's comics and his story? 2. What does this award mean to you? Your family? The community? I was at...
2026-01-26
"Lloyd Nordstrom, representing a group of Seattle business leaders, awarded the franchise to start the Seattle Seahawks football team", was part of the BIG news in 1974. Sam came home one day that we...
2026-01-19
A classic example for Goal Setting is the “Star of Bethlehem” in the Christmas story and is an example used by Professor Arthur Brooks at Harvard when he teaches his class on Happiness. The star is t...
2026-01-11
My husband, Sam, always talked about his mentor, Coach Gil. Sam was a defensive line backer on the high school football team, Weiser Idaho Woverines, for the 1948 & 1949 football seasons. Part of...
2026-01-07
As I face my ninth year since my partner of 56 years has been gone, it’s comfortable to look at this list for progress on my new path of life. For sure, finding my own path and knowing more abou...
2025-12-30
These are suggestions I am taking to heart from Professor Arthur Brooks. New Year Resoloutions go way back to ancient times. I want to make them positive with approach goals and mostly learning to man...
2025-12-23
One day I was at a nutrition conference at the SeaTac Red Lion around 1978. As I was taking notes I realized that "Healthy Cell" was composed of Heal Thy Cell and Sam created a mascot for our Heal -t...
2025-12-17
Steve's stories of love and friendship are heart warming and the story of Blossom the goose losing her mate Bud is epic. Dorie the worker at this place in Iowa put out a personal ad and another male g...