• The Plum Tree
• Walk in a Relaxed Manner
• Tough Girl: An Olympian's Journey
• The Tattooist of Auschwitz
• The Immortalists
• Camino Easy
• What the Psychic Told the Pilgrim
• We Should All Be Feminists
• The Princess Saves Herself in this One
• The Sun and Her Flowers
• Milk and Honey
• The Four Agreements
• The Unexpected Joy of Being Sober
• Being Mortal

• True Love
• The Guernsey Literary and Potato Pie Peel Society
• Gifts from the Sea
• A Call to Action
• All God's Children
• Orphan Train
• The Mountains Echoed
• The Fault in Our Stars
• Here If You Need Me
• The Cage
• Small Victories
• Number the Stars
• Knitting Yarns

• The Book of Miracles
• The Boy in the Stripped Pajamas
• Falling Leaves
• Three Little Words
• Have Alittle Faith
• When Women Were Birds
• I remember Nothing
• Living Your Yoga
• The Giver
• Things I Learned from Knitting

• The Alchemist
• Ask Me Later
• Knitting Under the Influence
• The Elegant Gathering of the White Snow
• Still Alice
• The Family Tree
• The Reader
• The Shack
• Zen and the Art of Happiness
• Prayers for Sale
• The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane
• The Recipe Club
• The Life You've Imagined
• Women Food and God
• The Power
• The Seasick Whale
• The Kindness Handbook
• The Happiness Project

• Chicago
• Air Supply
• Bon Jovi
• Neil Diamond
• Tower of Power
• Grand Funk
• Indigo Girls
• Melissa Etheridge
• Bonnie Raitt
• Jackson Brown
• Shawn Colvin
• Dixie Chicks
• Kenny Chesney
• Sarah McLaughlin
• Brandi Carlisle
• Rascal Flats
• Mary Chapin-Carpenter
• James Taylor
• Diana Krall
• Traci Chapman
• Cheryl Crow

• making quilts
• sewing
• planting flowers/vegetables
• knitting
• reading
• cooking/baking
• collecting cookbooks
• collecting buttons
• yoga

• Running Girl
• Nothing Good Can Come From This
• Annie Freeman's Fabulous Travels
• When Breath Becomes Air
• The Year of Magical Thinking
• The Memory Keeper's Daughter
• Between the World and Me
• Fahrenheit 451
• Night Women
• The Lost Woman
• The Streets of a Thousand Blossoms
• My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry
• Everything I Never Told You
• The Enchanted
• The Child Finder
• To Kill a Mocking Bird
• Gracefully Insane
• What She Left Behind
• Those Who Save Us

• The Devil's Arthimetic
• Wheat Belly
• The Holacaust Diaries
• Exploring the Labytinth

• Yellow Star
• Soul Retrieval
• Help Thanks Wow
• A Lifetime of Secrets
• ALife in Stitches
• A Dog's Purpose
• The Power of Kindness
• Sold
• Stitches
• The Compass
• The Book Thief
• Knitting the Threads of Time
• A Invisible Thread

This is a project of choosing 101 things I want to do in 1001 days. Those things in italics are in progress. Those in bold are completed. Start date: 11/23/10 End date: 8/20/13

• 1) Finish grandma's bench
• 2) Organize photos
• 3) 100 push ups
• 4) 200 squats
• 5) 200 sit ups
• 6) knit an afgan
• 7) finish sweater
• 8) knit socks
• 9) do happiness project
• 10) meditate 1x per week
• 11) snowshoe (2000)
• 12) learn to eat with chopsticks (2020)
• 13) save $5.00 a day
• 14) learn to kayak
• 15) do postcrossing.com
• 16) watch 501 movies

• I love my eyelashes
• I love to watch it snow. It makes me happy
• I love the silence of snow
• I wish I had a mom who loved me
• I guess she did the best she could
• I am not sure who my dad is
• I am sometimes afraid to try new things for fear that I might fail
• I have gotten braver since becoming older about trying new things
• I have now other fears since becoming older
• I cry easily...to songs, commercials, TV, movies, other people crying
• I have always wanted to be a social worker. Wrote it in my journal in high school
• I love writing in my journals. They have saved me during some hard times
• I believe in magic

• Portland Oregon
• Warner Robbins Georgia
• Frankfurt Germany
• Tucson Arizona
• Spokane Washington
• Lakewood Washington
• Charlottesville Virginia
• Salem Oregon
• Sedro Wooley Washington
• Bermuda

• Oregon
• Washington
• Arizona
• California
• Utah
• Nevada
• Montana
• Wyoming
• Texas
• New Mexico
• Virginia
• Maryland
• Kentucky
• Michigan
• Florida
• Pennsylvania
• Hawaii

• Black Is the Body: Stories from my Grandmother
• The Butterfly Girl
• An Awakening Walk: 500 Miles to Self Acceptance
• Steps Out of Time
• Tree Spirited Woman

• Learn to knit socks
• Complete walking challenge
• Read at least one book per month

• The Vintage Affair
• The 7 Secrets of Synchronicity
• The Hunger Games
• Catching Fire
• Mockingjay
• 365 Thank Yous
• The Five People you Meet in Heavan
• Comfort
• Balancing Acts

• This I Believe by Jay Allison
• 60 Seconds: One Moment Changes Everything
• Guilty Pleasures by Laurelle K. Hamilton
• The Flying Carpet of Small Miracles
• ✔ Prayers for Sale
• The Beach House
• The Book of Dahlia
• ✔ Rooftops of Tehran
• ✔ Three Little Words
• ✔ The Space Between Us
• ✔ The Reader
• Winter Garden
• ✔ The Postmistress
• How to Knit a Love Song
• ✔ The Happiness Project

• USO - selling concert/travel tickets (less than one year)
• Military - secretary (2 summers)
• DA's office - office support/supervisor x2 (1979 to 1980 and then 1988 - 1992)
• Multnomah County Health Dept. - office support (1986 - 1988)
• Fred Meyer - cleark (1985 - 1987)
• Dr. Auerbach's office - medical receptionist/assistance (1984 - 1985)
• Poyama Counseling Services - receptionist/transcriber (1984 - 1985)
• SCF/DHS - caseworker/supervisor (1997 - present)
• Avco Financial Servies - secretary (1978)
• 7-Eleven - clerk (1978)
• Luke and Wallingford - receptionist (1978)