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Category Archives: Family
A Great Night of Theatre
A GREAT NIGHT OF THEATRE Please don’t be mistook that I meant “a night of great theatre.” That’s not what happened. Instead Don and I were part of a group of eleven non-actors putting on a ZOOM production of “Arsenic … Continue reading
Oregon Shakespeare Festival, 2019 Season, Part One
(We flew down to Medford on June 3, shuttled into Ashland, checked into our usual motel [Bard’s Inn], and saw seven plays in four days, but ever since we had first made our reservations last November, I had begun planning … Continue reading
Posted in Family, Music, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Shakespeare, Travel
Tagged Cambodia, Indians, Rock Music
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Oregon Shakespeare Festival, August 2017, Part Two
As we promised last entry, we returned to Ashland to see the rest of the plays of the 2017 cycle, and this time our daughter Judy and her boyfriend Erik came up from California to join us. Before the plays … Continue reading
Posted in Family, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Shakespeare, theatre, Travel, Uncategorized
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Grandparents Weekend
On Fridays, our five-year-old Byron attends Wilderness Adventure School somewhere beyond Duvall. Last week, Don and I were invited to their Grandparents’ Day. In order to get to school at ten on Friday morning, we left our home in Seattle … Continue reading
Narrative About Jeff’s Bicycling Accident
I have Jeff’s permission to share his article on my blog. Yesterday (Friday, October 7th), at around 2:40 PM, I had a head-on collision with a car. I was traveling southwest on Madison street, and the other driver was making … Continue reading
The Dainty Ladies Book Group
The Dainty Ladies Book Group is a very small, exclusive club with only three members. It was started by my granddaughter Nina who suggested that we would all read the same book and then discuss it. The first invited member … Continue reading
Posted in Book Groups, Family, Uncategorized
Tagged Book groups, Books, Hitty, Holes, Newbery Prize, Reading
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De-Cluttering 101 Second Post
So it’s now June 28. Yesterday was our 62nd wedding anniversary and I’m still in the hobby room. My parents’ photos are almost gone, and a month ago I had turned my attention to another task. I had a huge … Continue reading
Posted in De-Cluttering, Family, Flowers, On Aging, Uncategorized
Tagged Washington Trails, Writing
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De-Cluttering, 101 (First Post)
After forty-one years of living in our house, we have forty-one years of stuff to get rid of. It was not clear where we should begin, but Don said we should start in the “hobby room,” a room we intended (in … Continue reading
One More Comment on Public Transportation
The Laurelhurst Blog picked up my posts on public transportation and re-published them, and one of their readers, Larry, was kind enough to comment on them. He pointed out some mistakes that I had made, and thought that Children’s Hospital … Continue reading
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Third Try, Public Transportation from Laurelhurst
Our children moved from Queen Anne to Redmond. Nice for them, but they took our grandchildren with them. On this lovely Friday, April 15, our granddaughter Nina was scheduled to play Baloo in a student production of the Jungle Book … Continue reading
Posted in Family, Public Transportation, Seattle, Travel, Urban Hiking
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