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Benay Nordby is a long-time resident of Washington State after growing up in the suburbs of Los Angeles, particularly West Covina. She attended Edgewood High School and earned a degree in Communications from California State University at Fullerton. She married city manager Lynn Karl Nordby in 1971 and they raised three children in Enumclaw and Bainbridge Island, WA. Ms. Nordby was appointed for three terms to the Washington State Community College Board of Trustees for Green River Community College in Auburn, WA for which she has been honored as a GRCC Heritage Person. A campus walkway was named in her honor in 2012. Her first book, The Full Ripened Grain, a Memoir of Healing and Hope, was published in the fall of 2013. She enjoys reading, ...more

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A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens features a character well deserving of our emulation in the new year. He is unsung, appreciated only by Bob Cratchit. I refer to Fred, Scrooge's nephew. For it is Fred who remains ultimately optimistic, forgiving and loyal to his uncle, a miser who tells Fred he would rather see him in hell than dine with him, humbug. Still, Fred remembers Bob's family and asks Read more of this blog post »

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“We human beings are at once delicate and intricate and temporal like the tulips in an April field and sturdy, resilient and enduring as Mt. Rainier when the will inspires us. We are individual miracles, those who live in vegetative states and those who wait with them”
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