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2024-01-18
When I was 9-yrs-old, I skipped a grade. Therefore, I was socially immature. Having buck-teeth and wearing pigtails into Jr. High didn’t help. On top of that, I moved into a class at Ontario High Sch...
2024-01-15
My daughters gave me this wonderful trip to see my grandson's UC Santa Barabara Swim Team win their swim meet. What a treat and what a weekend. Went shopping at the Santa Barbara Mall. So quaint! Fo...
2024-01-08
My New Year affirmation for 2024 is: "To bring my best to the table and focus on being nice." My New year resolution is to keep learning and stay on my path of life - developing resources for HAPP...
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...