by Ginger Kauffman You think it rains a lot in Seattle? Here are some facts (gleaned mostly from meteorologist Spencer Christian’s children book, Can It Really Rain Frogs?) that might put Seattle’s rain into perspective: From August, 1860 to August, 1861, the town of Cherrapunji, India received 1,042 inches of rain, which would reach...
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by Ginger Kauffman “What’s your favorite smell?” the radio host asked. “Call in with your answer and we’ll enter you into a drawing for a ham and a $50 gift certificate!” I can smell that ham now, with some whole cloves poked in it while it bakes, drizzled in pineapple juice, with a sweet...
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by Ginger Kauffman I’ve seen the back of Tom’s head a lot in the past year as he has spent hundreds of hours sitting at the computer, scanning old slides! He’s transferred thousands of pictures to the computer that his dad took from 1949 till the late 60s, and his own slides of Europe...
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by Ginger Kauffman While I was changing out the dishes from the winter set to the everyday ones, a photo on the newsprint I used for packing caught my eye. With only 1 limb, he’ll bike across U.S, read the 2008 headlines. It’s a story about Bob Mortimer and his family who were getting...
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by Ginger Kauffman In an upscale neighborhood in Rochester, New York, on February 29, 2000, a man killed his wife and then himself as their children fled to the next-door neighbors’ house. Peter Lovenheim, author of In the Neighborhood: The Search for Community on an American Street, One Sleepover at a Time, says in...
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by Ginger Kauffman Like most of the world, I spent the weekend following the news of the recent horrific events in Japan. Here are some thoughts on the subject. I lived for a year in Sendai, from September of 1980 till August of 1981, where I taught English and Bible and lived in a...
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by Ginger Kauffman I just read a love story. It was about a little boy, an almost-four-year-old, who was near death because of a misdiagnosed ruptured appendix. Several months after the two surgeries that saved his life, he began to tell his parents about his experience in Heaven. Colton saw Jesus, sat on His...
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by Ginger Kauffman I can plan a tea for 60 ladies; manage the details of a weekend retreat; create tasty, gluten-free meals for my family. But I find that the clutter of life attacks me like an avalanche! What to do to gain the upper hand? I’ve gone on campaigns to conquer the clutter,...
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Graham Kerr, who never does anything in half measures, decided three years ago to replace his lawn with a kitchen garden. Next to marrying Treena nearly 56 years ago, he says that first garden was the best experience of his entire life. Last night at the Floyd Norgaard Center in Stanwood Graham Kerr talked...
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We’ve just completed a John Adams marathon. First we watched a 13-part miniseries, produced in 1976, entitled The Adams Chronicles about John Adams, John Quincy Adams, and two more generations of Adams men. Next came the 2008 miniseries, John Adams, with seven episodes. This has been, for me, a refresher course in American history...
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