Today was Mark’s last day of work here at the Los Altos Rod & Gun Club. We now have two weeks to pack up and hit the road. It’s somewhat bittersweet for me. I’m excited about my new job coming up in March and seeing my family and Oregon friends before that, but I have made some really good friends here that I hate to say goodbye to. Continue reading
Today is the first working day in California when I’ve been unemployed as a Workamper. Mark has this week left to work and then we have a couple weeks to get packed up and head to Oregon for several weeks. So I’ve spent today doing research for my editing business and working on my web site. Continue reading
In the last two days I have been overwhelmed by the kindness of my quilt group from Peninsula Bible Church. The church is in Palo Alto, and I’m thinking that most of the women in the group also live there. Continue reading
Please welcome Susan Hornbach, an author/writer of children’s literature. I met Susan on LinkedIn and she seemed to have some good advice for writers who want to publish, so I asked her to write a guest blog for my web site. She did so in the form of an interview: Continue reading
Sunday, December 30th, Mark got hit by a runaway golf cart. He already has lower back pain from a military maneuver in 1998 and this exacerbated it, so after brunch on the 31st, we went to the VA Emergency room. This was sometime between 1:30 and 2:00 in the afternoon. Continue reading
I just had to add this! My son, Jamey, has been trying to raise money for his company to hire someone to do an android app for Comic Rocket. Here he is to explain it: Continue reading
I am one of four people Meredith Lawrence interviewed on the question of “What is the biggest change you’ve experienced in your life this year?”. Here is the link to the end-of-year postcard from OPB: Continue reading
I am listed as a subject “expert” with Oregon Public Broadcasting; the radio part of it. As such, I periodically receive questions that they send out to all their experts. Most of the questions don’t pertain to me so I ignore them, but occasionally I see one I can answer. Continue reading
In my last post I mentioned that I didn’t have Christmas till I was 9 or 10 years old. Well, every year since then I have been with family for Christmas…until this year. I wasn’t sure what Christmas would be like in our new lifestyle. We had to make some adjustments. Continue reading
I was born into a family that belonged to a very small sect called the Thompson Brethren. Actually, they didn’t call themselves much of anything except The Meeting. The Thompson Brethren were started back in the early 1900s by a series of tent revivals led by a man named Nels Thompson. They were (and are still) very Bible based. Continue reading