Road Trip! - 06/30/11 08:03 PM
We are back from a week's vacation!!  We drove from our home in Eastern Oregon, to Dallas attended a college reunion (college is defunct- first reunion ever, hard to recognize people after 43 years - lol), and drove back. 
Memories, little Thai restaurant in Colorado, out in the sticks, two lane narrow old highway going over 10000 foot pass, being asked "sweet tea or iced tea"as we got further south, The "As Good AS it GEts restaurant in Henrietta Texas, flooding in one state, drought in the next, the service station cAfe in Waurika, Texas is great too.   We stayed in … (3 comments)

Ahhh Friday! - 06/17/11 09:12 PM
Hilariously busy week.  I speak Spanish (not perfectly) latino clients have always been about thirty percent of my business.  Although I hadn't spoken much Spanish in two weeks, Monday was almost all in Spanish interspersed with showings in several towns not necessarily nearby. 
Tuesday and Wednesday went by in a blur - there was a crisis in the office that required a lot of thought from all of us.  That's one of our strengths - depth of experience and viewpoint.  Of course interspersed with showings in various not necessarily nearby towns. 
Thursday was pretty ok, went to the gym, didn't want … (4 comments)

America's Global Village Festival - 06/04/11 11:03 AM
Today I get to help with the Global Village Festival in Ontario Oregon.  I'v e done this most years since it was started, I really enjoy it.
Our area celebrated diversity before it was cool and before we even knew what diversity was.
It's not that prejudice doesn't exist here, it does, but tolerance is the most prevalent.
Our area first had Native Americans, then some French, Spanish and Northern European people, then lots of Basque people some Chinese then Mexicans, then Japanese because we were a free zone in WWII.  Of course there is a smattering of every type of … (0 comments)

 

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