January 5, 2012 – 12:23 am
I don’t relax easily. Find it difficult to sit still unless I’m reading something, and even then I’m wiggling a foot up and down, a constant jiggle perfected by my fellow Porters…my dad, my brothers, even my sister to a certain extent. I’ve a quick temper, too, far too impatient, and easily irritated when I [...]
December 23, 2011 – 10:45 pm
Christmas in Hawaii is so different from Christmas in Bellevue–different decorations and traditions–but still festive and fun. Mac loved helping put the ornaments on the tree, each blue ball was his “favorite”, and he is having a very hard time resisting the few packages slipped beneath the tree. Our tree here is a themed tree, [...]
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December 21, 2011 – 6:01 pm
Right now I don’t feel like a real writer. Maybe its because I haven’t been writing for a number of weeks and I have a big deadline bearing down on me. It will be good to get back to my desk in January. I’ll probably have a lot fewer pep talks with myself when [...]
August 1, 2011 – 12:47 pm
I don’t know when your kids go back to school, but mine head back in just a little over a month, with Jake returning to Bellevue High water polo practices on August 22nd. Can’t believe the summer is half way over…I love summer vacation, love spending my summers in Hawaii, too. I’m not as [...]
Just returned from airport and putting son Ty on a flight back to Seattle and am now sitting down at desk to recreate the 17 lost pages that were my final chapter of book that I cut and meant to paste, but failed ot paste before pasting new pages over. I was so bummed Sunday [...]
After five days in Whistler on a writer’s retreat I came home for a day and now I fly out tonight for Hawaii to join my two Gurney guys there. I’m really looking forward to getting some sun and swimming in the ocean and just soaking up Hawaii’s beauty. I need it after the hectic [...]
