Category Archives: Family
This I Do Not Understand
In the Oregonian, are advertisements for children in search of foster care homes. It reminds me of advertisements for pets. It feels absolutely inappropriate. Can anyone enlighten me on this.
The End
and indeed it is. Just delivered my favored car a 911 C4S to the new owner. It is akin to giving up something to which you are attached in the way one becomes attached to something outside oneself. Inexplicable but none the less, sad and sweet. The new owner sold me the previous 911 …
More Generosity!
My darling niece Leigh, has a cousin on the other side of her family tree, Beverly and she and Nick, and friends Barbara and Aaron came last night to the Mouse. How generous of you to come and thank you for waving during applause, or I would have missed you!! It has been such a …
The Odds?
This evening, meet up with Ann for a glass of wine. We head to 23rd Street. 23rd is a very hip, popular place in Portland. It starts at the bottom of hill called ‘Vista’ and a street ‘Burnside’ and runs, so to speak, all the way to the banks of the Willamette River. And I …
What Can I Say
http://www.oregonlive.com/weather/index.ssf/2014/02/portland_snow_traffic_fails_se.html No one apparently believes the weatherman here, too many calls of ‘wolf’. But today he got his comeuppance. Went out this a.m. to meet my niece Stephanie at my alma mater – a building new to me, with pictures of the past graduates lining the hall. She wanted me to see the picture which …
Fam & Flowers
It was a surreal event; to look out at the audience as the applause is happening and there they are! My favorite people: nephews and nieces and their young adult children. It was a special moment for me. Brian & Jami, Clark & Faun, Tori, Jordan, Emma, Nathan! To see their “Aunt” on the Boards. …