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2026-04-03
This is a picture of our wedding reception line on December 24th, Christmas Eve 1961. Sam and I are at the Moore Hotel banquet room in Eastern Oregon, where my parents were still living in Ontario, O...
2026-03-27
Listening to podcasts has been my go to, for assuaging my loneliness with “education” since Sam passed eight years ago. Listening to Arthur Brooks, professor of Happiness at Harvard, and taking his pe...
2026-03-23
A year ago, March 2025, after seven years of avoiding Mercerdale Park, because that's where Sam and I walked daily, before he died the end of 2017. This day, last year, was so beautiful as I drove to...
2026-03-13
Today, March 13, 2026, is another remarkable Friday! It’s been snowing all morning so we’re home enjoying the view and our dog is loving it and has been playing out on our deck all morning. It’s the o...
2026-03-09
Emotion is a complex, temporary psychological and physiological state and physical functioning is a reaction to internal or external events. Emotions influence our physical health! Alan Watkins i...
2026-03-04
Listening to Noah benShea: “Energy can only be transformed, we are energy. Ride the horse in the direction it’s going. The wind in your face, is God giving you kisses. The two great days in your lif...
2026-02-28
Yesterday, I had lunch with Ruth, sharing a crab dip at Palisades restaurant on Seattle’s waterfront. She grew up in a fundamental Christian environment like me. Neither Ruth nor I currently attend c...
2026-02-22
Last November, I had a resignation letter ready on email because I felt my ideas as a board member of the Japanese Cultural and Community Center of Washington (JCCCW) were not being heard and at age...
2026-02-07
Last Saturday was another district competition at Kent-Ridge High School. The 23 members of our Mercer Island Drill Team had breakfast at our house at 7am before leaveing for Kent on the bus. There ...
2026-02-07
This week was Super Bowl Week in football. I was moved to tears when I heard this one interview with Mike Macdonald, Seahawk coach. He was asked about his relationship with his wife. His answer, “She ...