Distance Looms

Elaine and me on my Wedding Day, September 2007 Learning New Ways to Love In 2000, when my daughter Elaine was 18, she and three friends rented a house in Riverside, where they’d be attending college, about 90 miles from our home. On moving day kids and parents loaded cars and drove to Riverside. We […]


Family of Certainty

Rich, Vaite, and Ryan Counting Kin My niece Vaite visited us last week. She’s Tahitian and attends university in France. She’d been home to Papeete for the Christmas holidays and planned a week’s stopover here on her return trip. We’d negotiated a schedule so that she could spend time with us, visit my daughter in […]


Family of Certainty

Rich, Vaite, and Ryan Counting Kin My niece Vaite visited us last week. She’s Tahitian and attends university in France. She’d been home to Papeete for the Christmas holidays and planned a week’s stopover here on her return trip. We’d negotiated a schedule so that she could spend time with us, visit my daughter in […]


Family of Certainty

Rich, Vaite, and Ryan Counting Kin My niece Vaite visited us last week. She’s Tahitian and attends university in France. She’d been home to Papeete for the Christmas holidays and planned a week’s stopover here on her return trip. We’d negotiated a schedule so that she could spend time with us, visit my daughter in […]


>Family of Certainty

> Rich, Vaite, and Ryan Counting Kin My niece Vaite visited us last week. She’s Tahitian and attends university in France. She’d been home to Papeete for the Christmas holidays and planned a week’s stopover here on her return trip. We’d negotiated a schedule so that she could spend time with us, visit my daughter […]