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Oh Christmas Tree, Oh Christmas Tree
Decorating a Christmas tree is a tradition I have always loved. When I was a kid, everyone in the family helped hang the many ornaments, some home-made and others store-bought, on the real pine tree that had a place … Continue reading
Morning in America
Another mass shooting today—it must be morning in America. I don’t know which is worse: the feeling of helplessness that overwhelms me when these things happen, or the fact that they happen so often. This one hit especially … Continue reading
I thought that my readers might enjoy a short story today. Boots Emma loved her boots. It had taken her a whole year of babysitting the brats down the street to save enough to buy them. Before she went … Continue reading
An Unwelcome Visitor
The most unwelcome of all visitors called on me recently. This visitor is never welcomed and usually not greeted with any enthusiasm. If fact, when you, your friends, and family find that it has called upon you, they, … Continue reading
Lan Su Chinese Garden
In the heart of downtown Portland, Oregon is the Lan Su Chinese Garden which is built on the site of a former parking lot. It’s modeled after gardens found in Portland’s sister city of Suzhou, China. The name Lan Su … Continue reading
Happy Birthday!
My daughter had a milestone birthday recently, she turned forty. What a wake –up call that was! It made me wonder how I could have a forty year-old child. Can you even call a forty year old a child? And … Continue reading
The Ghosts of Christmases Past
I was supposed to celebrate this Christmas with my daughter and her spouse in Oregon. That didn’t happen. I needed to have unexpected surgery on December 11th and came home from the hospital a few days later. Luckily, … Continue reading
Water, Water Everywhere
In our modern world, living in an industrialized country, we have water at our fingertips. It flows freely into our bathtubs, from our showerheads, through our garden hoses, spouts out of sprinklers, and fills our kitchen sinks…until it doesn’t. The … Continue reading
Holidays
We celebrated a wonderful Christmas with our daughter and her partner in California. Both families were invited to come and enjoy everything Christmas implies: family time, beautiful decorations, gift giving, fabulous food and togetherness. We baked and decorated Christmas … Continue reading
Daughters
I recently returned from a visit with my only child, my daughter Brenda, who lives across the continent from me in California. We spent a lot of time sitting and talking, time that was precious for us all. We … Continue reading