Camp Orkila 2019
Finn and I are back from three days at Camp Orkila. The occasion was Finn’s fifth grade class getaway, at which I was a chaperone. It was our second camping trip in a week, our Cub Scout trip to...
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Finn’s First Dive Meet
Today the family headed to Bellevue after the Seahawks game. The occasion: Finn’s first dive meet. I was a judge — another first. I don’t have much to say about it, really. Finn came in third in his...
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Thanksgiving 2019
This weekend the Jenkins family ventured south for Thanksgiving. Location: Kaizer, Oregon, near Salem. Home: that of Rhonda’s Uncle Danny and Aunt Louise. Thanksgiving dinner, outlet mall shopping...
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Christmas 2019
Santa was supposed to take it easy this year. He didn’t get the memo. A few photos:
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Finn Sets a New Jenkins Family Rubik’s Cube Record
In 1981 I solved a Rubik’s Cube in one minute two seconds. In 2020, Finn solved one in forty-eight seconds. Stunningly fast, but my guess is he’ll better that in the weeks and months ahead.
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Pack 148 Goes Snow Camping
This past weekend Finn and I joined our fellow Pack 144 families for a weekend of snow camping in Leavenworth. I’d love to tell you we had a great time but we didn’t. Thanks largely to my poor packing...
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Tea Party 2020
While Finn and I were driving home from Leavenworth with the Geyers, chilled to the bone, Reese and Rhonda were hosting their tenth annual tea party. Finn and I didn’t arrive until after the last...
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My Take on Corona-geddon
Virtually every conversation in the last eight days revolves around the world standstill occasioned by the coronavirus. Most comments end up answering the same question, asked or not: a general “what...
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Will Fauci Do To Trump What The Deep State Couldn’t?
Three weeks into Coronageddon and I’m starting to wonder if President Trump has a coronavirus. Not the invisible one that causes the deadly COVID-19, but a very visible one that hides in plain sight....
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