Marilyn found out today that she is receiving the female executive award for 2016 from the Portland Business Alliance's annual event (A Place with No Ceiling). The idea for her being nominated came from Jeff, who firmly believed she should win this award ( Read more... )

What's the most horrible feeling you can feel? To be so bone tired you just want to cry. I spent the last half an hour forcing myself to GET UP, because I have to do some things before I can lie back down and just SLEEP. And it felt awful. I really thought I wasn't going to be able to get myself up at all. (sigh ( Read more... )

So, the main thing I need to mention is that Marilyn was on the FRONT PAGE of The Oregonian newspaper today! Very cool. (As I mentioned on May 22, her article appeared on OREGONLIVE.Com that day. This PRINT version is basically the same article. Except the online version was actually longer and included more.) Anyway, ONE of the many photos that ( Read more... )

For those who wondered, thankfully the SECOND application of hair color managed to cover the orange. I was good to go today. It's not perfect, but I can live with it, thankfully. Oh, and I didn't mean to make it sound like sister Sue was giving me a hard time. She was probably as surprised by my white hair as I was ( Read more... )