January 1, 2026

I haven’t posted for a long time, but want to wish all of you a Happy and Healthy New Year. As I usually do at the first of the year, I was cleaning out stuff. A drawer hear, a shelf there. I was dividing some papers between recycle and shredding piles when I came across…

Podcasts for Journey to the Pacific

Podcasts 1)This is episode 1 in the Podcasts for Journey to the Pacifichttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ua3xA3It9NQ&t=381s 2)This is the 2nd episode of Journey to the Pacific https://drive.google.com/file/d/1C8cFlz8n17zMCbWJPXnBI7KzmkCNbdV6/view 3)This is the 3rd Podcast for Journey to the Pacifichttps://drive.google.com/file/d/1fodyLB8P0KTHTWB1_pSA5Bn5dfUZrTZD/view 4) This is the 4th Podcast for Journey to the Pacific. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1IQ-Q24cdit0hfznjL89cht8bOeBm511k/view?ts=693364c0

SHORT TRIPS

If you have never visited the town of Leavenworth, Washington, you are missing an adventure. Leavenworth is nestled in the Cascade Mountains about 135 miles East of Seattle. It is a Bavarian themed town with every kind of gift shop, wine tasting room and restaurant you would ever want to see. Alan and I had…

HAPPENINGS FOR 2025

It has been awhile since I have posted anything on here. Time seems to get away from me. I know that we are 3 months into the new year, but I will try to update you. In January, I was busy getting ready for an auction and open house for our new Parkland Community Center….

Save Parkland School

The community that I live in is called Parkland. It is a suburb of Tacoma, Washington. We are a community of about 40,000 people. The Parkland school has served the children of this community since the late 1800’s. It has been added to and remodeled and rebuilt many times over the years. It became part…

BEWARE OF SCAMS

I do believe that the publishing industry is one of the leading scam industries. Let me say upfront, I have been fortunate to work with three companies who are great and are living up to their promises to me. BUT, I receive multiple calls every day (including weekends) from supposed publishers or book acquisition companies…

The Oregon Coast

I am super excited right now. Alan’s younger brother who lives in Colorado is in Albany, Oregon now with their oldest brother. Jim and Peter are going to Seaside, Oregon on Monday and we are going to go down and spend two days with them. It is not often that the three brothers are able…

Podcasts and other things

It is very hard to put an effective title to a story. Titles do not come easy. When choosing a title, you have to consider the length of the title, how it pertains to the story that you are writing, how it fits on the cover of your book and whether the title will draw…