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2024-04-25
The year was 1993. Ann Gaponoff put up a sign at Island Books about starting a writing group because she had gone to her sister Frances’s wedding in Michigan the year before in September and connected...
2024-04-12
Penny Simkin is a world famous Child Birth Educator, born in Maine with Mayflower heritage. She has been a close friend for 60 years. We were neighbors in Seattle’s Capitol Hill neighborhood. A nice w...
2024-04-07
Wedding is in California and it’s spring and outdoors not far from where Alex grew up in Orange County. I’m in Washington, isolating with COVID! Remembering Sam and my Christmas Eve winter event in 19...
2024-04-05
The girls are at SeaTac, on their way to Santa Ana Airport to be in Orange County for my grandson Joey and his fiance Alex's wedding tomorrow. Sunday, I'm also missing out on a Disney Land treat. ...
2024-03-25
Just now, my daughter came to my bedroom doorway and stated, “Mom, Kirin and I just had a discussion about how you act when some of our friends come over. Kirin says, ’You barely say hello and seem ma...
2024-03-21
It’s a thrilling honor to be nominated by the Washington State Historical Society for the award to be given May 4th at the Washington History Museum in Tacoma. Working on the history of the Japanese...
2024-03-10
It was 10pm. Dad had just come home from his grocery delivery route and was having a late dinner. I sat at the kitchen table to talk. I told him about the ballroom dance lessons that were being star...
2024-02-28
Listening to Morgan Housel who wrote THE PSYCHOLOGY OF MONEY. He says too many of us are wired for “status” and not “happiness” and basically programed for attracting a spouse. Morgan says, “Contentme...
2024-02-11
Lilly is now 90-yrs-old and lives in the family home again, on Bainbridge Island, where her grandfather created his 20-acres farm and was raising strawberries before WWII. Lilly says, "Felix Narte was...
2024-02-07
We are again guests of the Seattle Repertory Theater for this evening of sharing stories that connect us all, as well as future generations. We present this evening to inspire each other and bring us ...