Friends and Family!!

My daughter's gone....oh she's not gone-gone but she was staying with me for a few weeks until she found a more permanent place....now she's gone and I miss her already. The last time she and I spent time together in the same house was over 20 years ago during her hard teen years...and I must say I truly love and admire the woman she has become.

We would sit in our jammies and share our life and our hearts. What is it about jammies that inspire friends to share more deeply?

I just returned from Astoria and the "Great Columbia River Crossing". This bridge that starts in Oregon and ends in Washington

and crosses the mouth of the Columbia river is one of the longest of it's kind in the world. Every year they close one lane of the bridge for two hours and over 3,000 people sign up to walk or run it's mighty span of over four miles. Eleven friends and I rented the "Penthouse" suite overlooking the bridge and the river. We spent the weekend laughing...sharing...eating...and laughing some more. Friends and family that know me inside and out and choose to love me anyway...that's what it's all about!!!