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2023-12-31
New Year Eve 2017, the Goto brothers and sisters gathered to wish Sam Goto farewell. As the day passed, sister Irene commented, “Do you realize Sam was born on the 13th and today is the 31st?” Wh...
2023-12-24
Christmas Eve was always exceptional, from the snowy 1961 evening in Eastern Oregon to the snowy 2017 goodby on Mercer Island. Sam and I were married in Ontario, Oregon, at the First Baptist Chu...
2023-12-20
The newest version of my “purpose in life” is: To keep learning ways to know God and spread HAPPIERNESS - little steps of personal responsibility bringing a little more happiness every day. The gran...
2023-12-04
It was January 1962, Sam and I had returned from our honeymoon, visiting southern California. We were beginning our married life at 411 Federal Avenue E, a block east of Marketime in the Broadway Dist...
2023-11-20
We took a side trip to Northern Nebraska on a 1995 fossil hunting trip through Montana, Wyoming, South Dakota where Tom had lived. All through our 30 years of marriage, I had constantly heard from Sam...
2023-11-11
I just awakened from a nightmare!! In my dream, I all of a sudden lost the convertible car I was driving along with our dog and purse in which I was carrying a few hundred dollars. I managed to call m...
2023-11-06
My soul is like a million-piece jigsaw puzzle. The purpose of this life of mine is to work on my own puzzle and at least work to put several thousand pieces together this lifetime if there is reincarn...
2023-10-30
The last book Sam was reading was HUMAN DESIGN by Greg Braden. What is most important about who I am is to be continually awakened in my consciousness by his current podcasts. One path that I want to ...
2023-10-20
So often, we highlight tragedy or bad news. Well, today is absolutely a great banner day! I awakened after a good night of sleep. Deciding I should thank my guardian angels, I included this in my morn...
2023-10-14
I live too far away to watch his swim meets, but it's fun to be part of the family that gets these kind of pictures and be able to help celebrate. The last time I was with his immediate family in Burb...