After listening intently to both political conventions and the commenters from both parties extolling the virtues or denigrating the limitations of the republican and the democratic candidates and reading a variety of newspapers representing different ideological perspectives, I came to the conclusion that I am discouraged about the questionable integrity of both of our candidates! I am a moderate; more specifically I am a fiscal conservative and a social liberal. As the daughter and wife of successful businessmen, most of…..
Graduation season has recently passed and represents an end to one of life’s main events and the right of passage to a new, yet uncharted beginning. A month ago, I attended the graduation of my grandson from the World Class Kayak Academy in White Salmon, Washington. As I boarded the plane in Boston en route to Portland, Oregon, I was reminded of a similar trip seventeen years before to attend Liam’s birth. Although I live 3000 miles from my…..