The title of this post comes from an entry on the blog of a friend of mine from high school who blogs under the alias Sioux. He recently posted a simple request: A member of his extended family is dying of leukemia. Doctors have apparently deemed him beyond treatment, and to keep his mind off [...]

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Tim and Kim made us a cool gingerbread house and also sent along an entertaining time-lapse movie of them assembling it. But after a week of being on display in our kitchen, it was time for it to go. We decided to respond with a video documenting its demise. At their suggestion, we posted the [...]

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As most of you who read our blog know, the past few months were really challenging for us. Fortunately, at this point it appears that all the effort and sacrifices involved with Jen’s treatments were worth it. We could not be more relieved and thrilled.
We are so grateful to all the people who were there [...]

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Picking a baby name is difficult! Help us name our baby girl by using our new interactive Baby Name Picker.

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Our good friends Tim and Kim had to say goodbye to their sweet girl, Shasta, this morning. Shasta had become sick in recent weeks, and this morning they “put her gently into the long sleep,” as Kim so eloquently imparted on her blog. Even if you didn’t have the good fortune to know Shasta, I [...]

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Last Sunday, in the midst of the rain storms currently besieging the Pacific Northwest, Jason and I decided to go diving on the Oregon Coast. The tide seemed perfect for an early morning drift followed by a dive at slack tide later on. Neither of us have been diving as often as we used to [...]

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On Saturday night, we got a babysitter for Evan, met up with Tim and Kim downtown, and watched a very entertaining production of Bat Boy: The Musical put on by the Actors Cabaret of Eugene. As mentioned before, we’d already seen the 2003 production of Bat Boy in Portland, which was most excellent! However, one [...]

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Spencer ButteA couple friends and co-workers from the East Coast were visiting last weekend, and I felt obligated to give these city slickers a taste of life in Eugene. So, on Saturday morning we headed down to the Saturday Market, and then Tim & Kim joined us for a beautiful afternoon hike up Spencer Butte.
It [...]

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We just want to wish our friends Chris & Lucia a heartfelt congratulations on the birth of their daughter, Clara! Chris & Lucia have been waiting and waiting for little Clara to enter the world. It finally took a little prodding to convince her that the time had come. We couldn’t be happier for [...]

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For Father’s Day this year, Jen and Evan gave me a day of diving! They conspired with our friend and dive buddy Jason, who agreed to accompany me beneath the crystal clear, ice cold waters of Clear Lake, OR — one of my favorite freshwater dive sites. The date was to be June 24th. And [...]

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