Marilyn and I attended the memorial of Barry Carlson today. It was very important for us to be there, not only on a personal level, but because we wanted to represent the festival ( Read more... )

I went to the festival office today with Marilyn. Today was the 2017 A Place With No Ceiling event at the Oregon Historical Society (who also hosted the same event last yearIt would have been inconvenient for Marilyn to try and get home to pick me up, so it made sense to go in with her. Just as well! I ended up having a lot to do ( Read more... )

It's currently past 2:00 a.m. and I'm EXHAUSTED. But I have happily finished up real garbage week, putting out a ton of garbage, cleaning the cat boxes and doing the recycling and composting. I'm a little more proud of myself some weeks than others, when it's a bit harder to do this task -- and tonight that was certainly the case ( Read more... )

It takes me more time to blog now, with my added 'health report' entry each day. Hopefully I'll get to the point where I'll do that faster. I can't really do it earlier in the day, because in order to reflect the entire day it should be the last thing I do before bed! I need to think about that ( Read more... )

Prepare to be REALLY BORED by medical reflections in this entry. You've been WARNED! I don't blame you if you decide not to read...So, I saw Dr. Stevens this morning -- probably for the last time, ever. (He's retiring the first part of November.) I'm really, REALLY going to miss him, something awful. He's been a really wonderful doctor for me, ( Read more... )

Marilyn took me out for dinner tonight, so I seriously should be dancing a jig right now! And it was fun, believe me. She's just the best ( Read more... )

This was another VERY BUSY day. The only break I took all day was to go to the dentist -- not exactly a fun getaway -- hahahahahahahahahahaha. Thankfully sister Sue took me to drop off a prescription and then to the dentist and back to pick up my meds. She's a gem!

I started out my day put up the News item on the festival website (you can view it ( Read more... )

KATU Channel 2 (one of our local stations) has a series they do called Everyday Heroes. And guess what?

Did you figure I was named one? It came as a shock to me!

( Everyday Hero... ??? )

The icon that's displaying with this entry is one of the professional photos that was taken of me by the festival (well, Marilyn arranged it with a photographer we use for Court photos) -- specifically for use with our media release of the following:

Charlie wins 2012 Volunteer of the YearI was told this weeks ago -- and the announcement came as a ( Read more... )

Yes, I know that I promised more about my good news -- but it's going to have to wait until tomorrow, I'm afraid. Sorry! I will share the details, I promise. (And if you're not my Friend over at Facebook, I'm sure you're plenty confused about now. Honest, I will tell more ( Read more... )