Tualatin Life

For four months, the glamour of show business, followed by international coverage of the first manned lunar shot recovery and transit of module around South America, kept me extremely busy as the Public Affairs...

Since the beginning of the discussions regarding the ambitious Nyberg Rivers Shopping Center, most people seem to believe that this project would transform the ugly, dilapidated K-Mart Shopping Center into an upscale retail jewel, offering a new and impressive gateway to Tualatin

Happy New Year! When I started thinking about what to write this month with a new year abound, it came to me instantly. Many of us have just come off a two week period with our children out of...

Herb Lafky passed away at age 94 December 5. He is about the last of the old gang that grew up in Tualatin and attended the old 1900 Tualatin School. Gang, in this instance,...

My sweet husband, Ed, and I were  celebrating a wonderful New Year’s Eve at the beach when he gamely suggested that the Doodles should make some resolutions for 2014. I concur that it is not a bad...

While under constant pressure of danger from Communist Chinese soldiers, Tualatin resident Joe Lipscomb served with the Marine Corps in front lines of the Korean Demilitarized Zone (DMZ).  He and his fellow Marines went...

While under constant pressure of danger from Communist Chinese soldiers, Tualatin resident Joe Lipscomb served with the Marine Corps in front lines of the Korean Demilitarized Zone (DMZ). He and his fellow Marines went to sleep every night with...

Those who have read my wife Nancy’s “Dog Talk” missives will understand when I say that I have just about reached the end of my leash. But rather than wallow in the circus that daily life with the...

Everyone has a picture of what the holidays should look like or how they should go. When the reality doesn’t match the expectation you have in your head, it doesn’t feel good. Sit down...

The journey began three years ago. I went into the heart of Ethiopia. Then Ethiopia made its way into my heart. I fell in love with the village of Arjo, a tiny metropolis of mud huts and tin-roofed...