A Measure of Success
The email was a surprise and then it wasn’t. The man was in my scout troop in San Francisco thirty years ago and as a teen was not the...
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So Long Dick
An old family friend passed away about six weeks ago. Last weekend I flew to San Mateo, California and attended a memorial service for...
Ashland
For the first time in about ten years, we visited Ashland, Oregon and the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. We enjoyed two Shakespeare plays,...
I don’t know, Roku?
I often consider what normal features of daily life would be incomprehensible 20 or even 10 years ago – smart phones, tablets, online...
Family Gathering
I attended the funeral of my cousin Al in Colville, a small town in northeast Washington. Colville is in the mountains not far from what...
Passings
My cousin Al died this past week from cancer. He was three years older than I am and is the second cousin my age to die in a year and the...
Where is Norman Rockwell when we need him?
I got up at 6 a.m. to discover gifts on the front porch deposited by Santa’s helpers in the brown trucks. Saturday Evening Post of the...
Holiday Tradition
As a youngster one of the rituals exercised by my mother was, “David, would you go find some chairs please?” I then had to go about the...
Joshua Monday
With two of us, one can keep and eye on him while the other works remotely. Joshua has not one, not two, but three wi-fi networks at his...
Home Movies
I just completed a couple of desktop home movie projects, another genre of the technology revolution. I was a participant in the growth...
Christmas 2009
It’s been a year of premiers, the big events that mark chapters in life. Where to start? We all strolled the red carpet to meet Kellen...
Turkey Day
My ancestors were at the first one in 1621. Teenagers Elizabeth Tilley and John Howland survived that first winter when her parents died...
The New Person
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The New House
My wife Lorraine and I tagged along on this property hunting trip because it seemed like a harmless way to spend a Sunday. I hadn’t been...
The Birth of the Tank
The title and the photo are related, really. I grew up in Stockton, California which was home at the turn of the 20th Century to Benjamin...
For Opening Day
(This is from last year.) Somewhere it is written that boys must join Little League where they will learn about physical fitness and...
Pickups I
I drive a pickup these days, but it isn’t my first. My dad bought our first pickup in 1965 for $100 from a Japanese gardener named K....
The News
In this case the news is of the family variety. My son Matt and his wife Tiffany announced to the family a couple weeks ago that she is...
Good Wood
One of my distractions is the construction of furniture for me, my family, and friends. I have a small-but-respectable wood shop in what...
The Annual Letter
I got such good comments about our letter for the holidays I thought I would post it here. The year 2008 has been a wonderful one for all...
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