Patricia Vanikiotis
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Dinner and Travel Talk
Earlier this week my husband and I spent a delightful evening with new friends, enjoying a few bottles of wine, dinner and travel talk. We met Marianne and Rich last summer when mutual friends from Portland came to town, and we invited both couples to our house for dinner. They had all attended Oregon State University together (and my husband, too, though a few years ahead of the others) and all had lived in the Portland area for the past 30-some years, so they had known each other for a long time. Just within the past year Rich and Marianne had moved here to Medford in Southern Oregon, and our mutual friends, Jim and Amber, hoped we'd hit it off and help ease their friends' transition to a new place.
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Rainy Day Options for Little Ones
We're deep into winter now, and for those with young children who can't readily escape to warmer, dryer climes, that can bring on feelings of dread when extended periods of cold, wet weather arrive. We all can experience cabin fever, where days on end indoors without a good outlet for exercise can have us climbing the walls. Multiply that feeling ten times for a toddler with seemingly bottomless stores of kinetic energy, and you can understand how important (for their own sanity, if nothing else) it is for parents to find weather-indifferent outlets for their rambunctious children's wiggles.