Showing posts with label Alice. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Alice. Show all posts
Sunday, March 15, 2020

Alice And Vulcan Incorporated - Only In America

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Vulcan Incorporated President and Chief Executive Officer at Vulcan's Christmas party, 1988. I proposed to Alice that evening after the...
Tuesday, December 16, 2008

Our 2008 Christmas Letter

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Alice and I were walking Buddy to Cook’s Beach, about 15 minutes away, and I realized I hadn’t started our Christmas letter. What to write...
Thursday, November 08, 2007

The Spirit of Nick

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Alice and I toured China for three weeks, and Nick was one of our several Chinese guides. After we toured a Buddhist pagoda, we got on ...
Wednesday, August 08, 2007

Index of Posts Except Political

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(Please mouse click on the red, underlined link titles to be magically transported to the articles described. I'll be glad you did. How ...
Thursday, March 29, 2007

Soaking Wet, Wearing a Big Smile

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Celebrities have iconic images, a look that is clearly stamped in the public eye and is readily associated with them. Back in the good old d...
Thursday, December 14, 2006

Our 2006 Christmas Letter

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May the gifts of joy and peace be yours this Christmas season and throughout the New Year         A Christmas letter is like a box of...
Saturday, September 16, 2006

Mixed Company

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About sixteen years ago, in the heyday of Gay, Alice and I thought it would be delightful to spend a few days in Guerneville, on the Russian...
Friday, August 25, 2006

Murder by Wasabi

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We hadn’t been married a year before Alice tried to poison me. Alice’s favorite food is sushi, and one evening she made sushi at home for us...
Friday, June 09, 2006

Same Time Next Year

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During the last half of the 1950’s, I went on many Point Arena High School trips to other schools in our northern California area – Mendocin...
Sunday, May 21, 2006

Alice's Project Completed!

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(These photos show the beams of the sunroom being placed by a huge crane extended over our house, Alice and her daughters and grandk...
Tuesday, May 16, 2006

Liberals Squemish About Patriot Days

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Under the category, It's Never Too Late, I belatedly ran across a blog post from almost a year ago that included a letter Alice wrote th...
Wednesday, March 29, 2006

The Dublin To Tralee Train

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(Alice’s oldest daughter married a fellow from Keady, County Armagh, Northern Ireland, U.K. We visited his family for a couple of days, then...
Saturday, March 04, 2006

Alice was a California Can Carrier

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Alice was a California Can Carrier, or at least used to be a member of an organization by that name. She joined the California Can Carriers ...
Monday, February 13, 2006

A Burning Desire

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“Great Expectations” ended with Alice accepting my proposal at her business, Vulcan, Incorporated, Christmas party five weeks after we met....
Saturday, January 21, 2006

Who is the Fool?

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(I love to mix it up, in letters to editors, anyway. But it is a great feeling when someone covers your back, and stands up for you when the...
Tuesday, January 10, 2006

Great Expectations

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Shortly after my wife Marilynn died, I received a Great Expectations bulk mailer. After 25 years as a married man, I realized I would need...
Wednesday, January 04, 2006

The Strong Woman Myth

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For many years now conservatives have been stereotyped as in opposition to "strong" women. I think it is a product of the ceaseles...