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A busy and fulfilling weekend

This was a weekend of investments: personal, business, and self.

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Filter web content to protect your family

OpenDNS is free

OpenDNS is free

With more than 50 filtering categories available, using OpenDNS for your home network is an easy way to protect your family from bad web content and phishing attempts.

You can use OpenDNS without creating an account: just point your DNS to their name servers. Fast DNS and automatic phishing protection is now yours.

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A family lost and found means more than closure

Mother Joyce

The year is 1957. The place is Wichita, Kansas. To be a single mother in that time and place was to be outside the socially accepted norm.

My wife-to-be was put up for adoption, and from that moment, her birth family was lost. Fifty-one years later, our son pulled the proverbial rabbit out of the hat. He found my wife’s birth family, after we had tried for years to find them and had just about given up hope.

Where once we sought closure, now we have new relationships to explore.

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Adventure touring on a scooter: priceless

Packed and ready to roll

With a few days of vacation left, and great weather promised by the soothsayers on TV, I loaded up the Burgman 650 scooter and headed toward Mt. Rainier, Palouse Falls, and Mt. Adams. I found a campground to remember, and one to forget. The scooter is now a pseudo dual-sport motorcycle, after successfully navigating several miles of Forest Service gravel road!

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