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MAKES ME SMILE!MIDST A RAINY 2...
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...
Mercer Island Drill Team Pract...
2025-12-08
Last Saturday @ Newport was their first competition for this school year. It was a long afternoon, but as I listen to Arthur Brooks describe ways to HAPPIERNESS, my granddaughter is learning some impo...
Also received this in the mail...
2025-12-02
Yesterday morning, as I was driving my granddaughter to school, she said, "Did you know that Grandpa Lancaster passed yesterday?"   I answereed, "Yes, how do you feel about it?"   She responded, "Kind...
Granddaughter did great with 8...
2025-11-24
Nothing like the THANKFULNESS I feel to be living in a household where there is singing as she comes down the stairs in the morning to various parts of the day as she feels inspired!
It's a good feeling to "connec...
2025-11-13
OMOIDE (memories) is a program where I love being one of the leaders, since 1991, when Margaret Yasuda, Dell Uchida, Chuck Kato and I started meeting in my kitchen weekly to start. Janine Brodine is o...
Caption on a kitchen towel, I ...
2025-11-09
I'm home from a most thought inducing trip of staying with friends and relatives with long conversations about life. As I participate again in picking up the girls after school, this article on YouTu...
"Marriage is a commitment wher...
2025-11-07
Tonight, I stumbled upon an archeological documentary, on YouTube about the pre-Maya culture some researchers have uncovered in Central America. Early in our marriage I surprised Sam with a trip to G...
HONESTY AND INTEGRITY ON THE P...
2025-11-02
I'm in Southern California, visiting with several friends and relatives. It's been a series of conversations that have been most fulfilling because we are being more "honest" about our stories and fin...
Dad's examples of promoting ha...
2025-10-22
This morning, October 2025, my enemies are the those who support and perpetuate the dark aspects of our social media.  In the 1937-1940s in Eastern Oregon & Western Idaho, my Dad arranged to have cof...