Steve and I were blessed to experience the unlikely fulfillment of a longstanding dream this summer. I say “dream” because it was too lofty to be a “bucket list” item that we set out to do sometime in our life; it was something that existed only in our wildest imaginations. We made a crossing of the North Atlantic on the Queen Mary 2! I have been in love with the sea and ships since my earliest ferry boat rides from my childhood home in Seattle to the Olympic Peninsula and the various islands in Puget Sound. Later, on a visit […]

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By Teri Ong   Once upon a long ago, there was a dowdy scullery maid named Cinder-Teri. She was assigned to work in the kitchen in a beautiful kingdom called Camp-of-the-Woods. All in all, she was very happy there. The work was not unpleasant, and the kingdom was ruled by a wise and benevolent king and queen who loved and cared for all of their subjects.  The king and queen were the blessed parents of two handsome princes and two beautiful princesses. Many of the working lads and lasses in the kingdom of Camp-of-the-Woods aspired to be deemed worthy to be […]

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