Sherry | September 1, 2008
John and Erin usually live in their own house across town, but for a short time they’re staying with us. That’s because they’re ready to head out on a nine-month around-the-world adventure, and they’ve already rented their house to college students. Erin’s parents, Ed and Joy, are here too, having flown in from the East [...]
Sherry | August 28, 2008
The day a spouse or a parent dies creates a life marker. When that marker is accompanied by another life marker, they become permanently associated, even when unspoken. There’s just no way around it. We don’t make a thing of it whenever John’s birthday rolls around, though I don’t imagine he gets through the day [...]
Sherry | August 24, 2008
I spent much of my weekend finishing up my photo project. Uh, did I say finish? Ha! Who am I kidding? I figure I’ll be doing photo projects till my dying day, and that will suit me just fine. Trouble is, there are other things to do with my time. I did manage to tear [...]
Sherry | August 17, 2008
My own family photo albums go back 40 years! They are better than journals for helping me remember what I did when. I’m no different from all those other people who claim they would first rescue the people from a house fire but very next they would go back in for their photo albums. I [...]
Sherry | August 16, 2008
Neither Mauri nor I are very good self-promoters. A number of years ago we invested many, many hours, a good-sized chunk of change, and a heap of energy producing two recordings of music. That was the easy part. The boxes of “product” arrived, and the hard part began. Even though people had encouraged us to [...]
Sherry | August 13, 2008
If Erin jumped for joy the day she mailed off her book manuscript, imagine how this must feel to her!
Sherry | August 11, 2008
Is it still a fishing trip if you don’t catch any fish? Of course it is!
You go fishing to sit beside a quiet lake and anticipate what might bite your bait.
You go fishing to break your routine and take in the silent beauty of nature.
And when you can’t absorb any more of that peaceful [...]
Sherry | August 10, 2008
Mauri’s essentials ready to go.
They wouldn’t want to forget anything.
In it goes.
The fillet knife, just in case someone catches something edible.
Packing champions!
The hopeful trio, off on their adventure. If only I could remember where they were going.
Sherry | August 6, 2008
We won’t complain that it wasn’t exactly sunny on the day we chose to drive to the beach. We all returned with a little bit of pink skin, so we know the sun was up there somewhere. There’s sand at Pacific City and that, along with a sea full of water, made for an afternoon’s [...]
Sherry | August 4, 2008
Look who showed up at the office today! Okay, so it wasn’t a surprise, since we had already driven to the airport to pick up these dear Andersons (notice the dad is missing, back in Denver working).
One by one these “stokers” did drive-bys on their way out to see the town.
First Bailey…
…then Cassidy…
…and finally [...]