It is just over a week until Christmas Eve. The presents have all been bought and wrapped. I packed and shipped the gifts for my son and daughter-in-law in Oregon and for our former foreign exchange student and her family in Japan. For my brother and sister and their families in Idaho and our […]
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I can’t say for certain when photo Christmas greeting cards came into vogue, but I am pretty sure my Dad was on the cutting edge in the early fifties when he began taking photos of his kids specifically to include with the family Christmas greeting. My dad had always had an interest in photography and […]
Thanksgiving has always been my favorite holiday. I love all the traditional Thanksgiving foods like roasted turkey, mashed potatoes and gravy, sweet potatoes, and especially pumpkin pies with a generous topping of freshly whipped cream. I even like the much maligned green bean casserole with the french fried onions on top. But the food isn’t […]
I just heard last night that my sister broke her hip. I heard about it ten days after the fact when Cheryl’s husband, my brother-in-law, posted a photo on his Facebook page showing her being moved by gurney into an ambulance. The description just said something to the effect that the local medical center was […]
I was watching the Today Show this morning while I was getting in my cardio workout on the treadmill at the gym.The segment that caught my attention was an interview with the stars of a new Broadway adaptation of The Trip to Bountiful by author Horton Foote. I never saw the movie version in the […]
Okay, I’ll admit it, I have the travel bug. It started when I was young and my parents would load the four of us kids into the station wagon for a summer road trip. Living in Southern California presented us with a wide variety of beautiful destinations from the ocean to the mountains and everything […]
When our children were born we felt not only a great warmth of love for them, but also a great responsibility of care. When they were infants, that care was pretty simple and straightforward if not always easy. Half the battle was figuring out what exactly they wanted or needed when their only form of […]
