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After visiting the nuclear reactors in Hanford in Washington and watching the movie Oppenheimer the historical loop closed for us this week with a visit to Los Alamos in New Mexico. The small town is only 45 min by car from Santa Fe where we were staying. The drive is interesting since at one point […]

For sure most of us have seen bags of large fresh cranberries in the stores around Thanksgiving. You may also have seen the Ocean Spray advertisements for cranberry juice and other cranberry products with men in waders standing in a pond with cranberries floating around them. I always had trouble imagining how one would harvest

This year for the first time we attended the Sunriver music festival. This event featured a series of concerts offering classical music – hosted in Bend as well as in Sunriver. We had the opportunity to listen to a concert called “The Leipzig Connection” which included pieces from Schuhmann, Mendelson and Bach – all of

On a recent trip to Hood River in the Columbia Gorge we spent some time strolling up and down the main street in town, which is Oak Street – where many shops, galleries, cafes and restaurants are located. On the upper end of the street, but still in what one would call the frequented area

As we left the coast we drove by one of our favorite spots that we usually hit during such trips – the Yaquina Bay Oyster Company. There one can buy fresh oysters – chucked or in the shell. We usually take the latter one and eat them raw or barbecue them. When you barbecue the

Many of the little towns along the Oregon coast have public and private galleries. On our recent visit to the coast, we took the time to visit quite a few of them. We noticed that many of them are now coops – meaning a group of artists who join or form an organization that rents

The hotel where we were staying on the beach is a nicely maintained property with many amenities including extensive flower beds and shrubbery beds and large areas of nicely manicured lawns. One morning I went out for a walk and there it was: literally in the middle if not dead center of a lawn perhaps

This is the first of a couple of “beach posts”. We had the opportunity to go to the Oregon coast with friends and with leisure time came observation opportunities. One is always eager to look immediately at the ocean on arrival day and the balcony of our apartment right by the cliff provided the perfect

For many years I have been using Lenovo laptops – previously these were called IBM ThinkPad. They were always an option at the workplace and after a brief excursion into alternative providers I returned to them. So, my first private personal computer after retiring was logically also a machine from them. It is a Lenovo

When I was in college many years back, I pledged to always maintain the ability to talk to everybody. It is perhaps not a new observation that differences in the educational journey can propagate into differences in the professional journey possibly to different stands, views and opinions. And it is also observable that people tend