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2022-01-14
“I think it’s time to see if Mrs. Takei can come and help,” Mary whispers to Sago. It is January 14th, 1939, and past midnight on this remote Eastern Oregon farm, ten miles west of Vale – Malheur Coun...
2021-12-31
When the girls were toddlers watching HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON became an obsession. Hiccup was their hero! Philosophers like Dostoevski set the stage for writers like Tui Sutherland and the dragons of...
2021-12-30
According to Vilfredo Pareto, economist/sociologist of the early 1900s, 80% of the Italian wealth belonged to 20% of the population. Economists further determine that 80% of outcome in a business is a...
2021-12-26
Sixty years ago, it was 2am and Sam & I hadn’t eaten all day and night. With our getting married at the Ontario, Oregon, Baptist Church, reception at the Ontario Moore Hotel and gift opening at my Unc...
2021-12-21
It’s Christmas break and the dog Suki is growling as the sisters are bantering and sometimes getting competitive with “one-upmanship”. One enemy is “too much sugar” which eventually gets them into bad...
2021-12-13
Forty-eight years ago, 1973, when Sam and I built our new house off West Mercer Way, we were welcomed with neighborhood coffee hours. The Mercer Island City's Welcome Wagon gave us a basket of goodies...
2021-12-05
Similar to Emily Post for our western traditions and manners, those of us with Japanese Heritage also maintain various levels of GIRI.Yesterday, I was asked to pick up a distant cousin, at the airport...
2021-11-22
THANKFUL FOR SMALL THINGS, BIG THINGS AND EVERYTHING IN BETWEEN!
2021-11-22
The Yin/Yang principle suggests, we are constantly influenced by good and bad choices as we live daily. The goal is to keep a balance. Yin (literally the ‘shady place’) is the dark area. Yang (literal...
2021-11-08
Hearing a bullet whistle past my head, on the 38th parallel in the Korean War, I found that life became more precious. As a sergeant with the US Infantry, I came home with a commendation from the Pres...