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2025-05-29
Seventy years ago I thought I was strong in science and math so I chose nursing. Girls, in the 1950s, became teachers, nurses or secretaries. I loved Lewis and Clark College, but I hated the prac...
2025-05-19
The word is “becoming”. It’s an ongoing process. Five best friends that I had for over 50 years left me last year. My soulmate best friend left this world seven years ago. For those last seven years, ...
2025-05-05
The picture is still clear in my mind, 70 years later. I am standing in the outside stair-well that leads into the church basement. The sun is shining, but I feel cold and the confirmation that I am n...
2025-04-27
Floyd Wilfred Schmoe (September 21, 1895 – April 20, 2001) was a Quaker, pacifist, author, college professor, marine biologist, and park ranger living in the Seattle, Washington, area for most of his...
2025-04-17
In 1942 during WWII with Japan, about 9000 of us Japanese were put into prison in Southern Idaho where we lived in Block 5. I was eleven and my brother Ted was twelve. Dad, being a businessman, had t...
2025-04-07
Auntie Chiyo will be 99-years-old next month, May 2025. She has moved at least 16 times in her life. She had just turned sixteen when she was rounded up with the 9000+ Seattle Japanese and taken by bu...
2025-03-31
When my younger daughter came back to live in the house in which she grew up with her two girls, I turned most of the house over to her and began spending most of my day in my room. I found sitting ...
2025-03-29
Mom, Sis & Kirin got home from the Yakima State Competition at 1:00a, with tear tired EXHAUSTED faces - SMILING. Granddaughter get's up 4 days a week for their 6:15a practices, with frequent pe...
2025-03-26
This past year, I lost 5 people who would have been on my vision board. They are friends and family I have had for over 50 years of my life. But that's life and what I have to go forward is great! T...
2025-03-18
This morning I listened to Dr. Ethan Kross in the Psychology Department at the U of Michigan. Current 2025 research and podcast interview academics suggest, “It’s important to know ourselves for Fulfi...