By Willie’s mother
Willie (Tiegan Willie Koonce) has a more sophisticated taste in music than many of his eight-year-old peers. He loves to dance to his radio! Willie is learning to swim. He likes to stomp with his boots in the snow. He jumps on the trampoline and swings on the swing [...]
Bellingham, Washington has an amazing poetry contest in honor of my maternal grandmother, Sue C. Boynton. Here is one of the 2010 winners, Kevin Murphy, presenting his work, “The Falling Apart.”
My brother (David Crook) and I took a few hours off this afternoon and drove out to the White Tank Regional Park. I’d never been all the way up the Waterfall Trail, and that was my goal. However, I chickened out at about the half-way point. I am just restarting my fitness program and plan [...]
Following is a poem written by my nephew, Jonathan Burton, of Mossyrock, Washington. In the picture above, left to right: Sisters Emily and Keisha, Mother, Cheryl, Jonathan, and Brother Donovan. Jonathan’s other siblings are Jeremiah Williams, Jenna Simek, Michelle Burton, and Andie Burton.
A number of relatives in Jonathan’s generation are very creative, some writing [...]
I spent all of junior high, high school, and two years of college in a marching band, with a French horn. Perhaps I’m biased, but this seems like an extraordinary group of people.
Watch my grandson, Jerry Kukuruda, in these 50+ world finals.
Ruthann Clemens took me to Fleming’s Steakhouse in Peoria recently for a belated birthday gift, and I have to say each visit is better than the previous visit. And the previous visits were amazing.
When we were being seated, she later told me, she took the server aside and mentioned that I have a hearing [...]
What a wonderful Christmas at the Ed and Michelle Dias home. Ruthann Clemens and I entered a home filled with fun, joy, family, food, and Lucy. Lucy is an itty bitty dachshund that we all love. We spent the afternoon and evening with Ed, Michelle, Brian Collins, and David and Janet Crook. Ed is remarkable [...]
Here’s a card with a photo of a Red Australian baby (joey) asleep in its mother’s pouch. Elsbeth Oggert designed the card for me.
The best to you at this special time to honor the birth of Jesus!
My sweet cousin Joyce passed away last week, and my brother David Crook will lead the service at Westford Funeral Home on Friday, August 13, 2010 at 11 AM, followed by a luncheon reception.
Joyce Boynton Blakeman, age 53, passed away August 4th, 2010 in Smokey Point, WA, where she lived most of the last year [...]
