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"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...
Congrats! A Nail Biter!! Happy...
2025-10-21
Nothing like getting as close as the Mariners came to being in the World Series. For me, I have a trip this week to Arizona for the Poston Pilgrimage, where they had one of the sites for the Incarcera...
FINDING PEACE
2025-10-15
This morning I’m listening to a Lewis Howes/Andrew Huberman podcast. They are the ones who got me started with my daily practice of learning, seven years ago, when I chose listening to podcasts as he...
AI - “LOVE” JAPANESE STYLE
2025-10-05
Taking my granddaughter to school this week, I said, “Have a good day.” I think my daughter would have said the common parental departure statement: “Love you!” Although Sam and I were “Sansei” (thir...
In many ways everyone is a gen...
2025-09-26
This morning I awakened with a warm feeling in my heart. It was because I had a dream with a scene where I was deciding to go home because my love was there.    The place, "home", was Ontario, Oregon,...
"Doing what's right is hard to...
2025-09-18
 My daughter, Kelly, got a large rock from the quarry at Preston’s Marenakos Rock Center, had it sliced in two and polished. One-half is the grave stone at the Hillcrest Cemetery in Kent, WA, with a d...
WHAT IS MY JOB??
2025-09-08
The story is that JFK visited NASA and ran into a custodian and asked, "What do you do?"   The custodian answered, "I'm helping us get to the moon."   Using this example and because I'm a board member...
YOU DON'T HAVE TO BELIEVE EVER...
2025-08-30
“You don’t have to believe everything you think!” are the words on the door in my room. I printed and put up those words after I was given a “Joe Dispenza Seminar” on my computer for my birthday abou...