Written by Randy Corman
I have not updated my blog in a few days, as I was enjoying some family vacation time on Orcas Island. Our family joined with many of our friends for a 39-person group camp out, with kayaks, canoes, fishing, speed boating, games, cookouts, biking, etc for four great days.
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…until Cathy and I celebrate our 25th anniversary!
Here’s my beautiful bride opening a present on her last birthday. In addition to years of love and companionship, she has given me five wonderful children…two girls and three boys. We like to quip that two of a kind plus three of a kind make a full house; but that has not stopped our family from adding to the vivacity of our home by hosting exchange students, extended family, friends, and a menagerie of animals through the years. So many blessings.
(Cathy and and my youngest daughter Susie are in the beach town of Mendicino, California attending a wedding right now, so the boys and I are bach-ing it for a while. I’m missing them today, which prompted me to write this.)
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As I was recently exchanging emails with one of Jesse Tanner’s daughters, I developed the notion to share this brief essay written by my sister Brenda about my own dear father. It was published in one of the Chicken Soup series of books….it’s a quick read, so I hope you will check it out!
Click here to read the short essay about my Dad.
My sister Brenda, now and as the princess at age 7.
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My wife loves animals! She is the one who insisted we live on more than an acre in an area zoned for animals. Here is a cute picture I shot of her in 1982, at University of California Davis. She was showing the cow, Clarabelle, in a campus competition. Click to enlarge the photo to full size.
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I borrowed Marcie Palmer’s cell phone during our tour of the Landing, and accidentally forgot to hand it back to her. So the next day my family joined me in a horse ride to return the phone to Marcie’s house.
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We had a great time in Ocean Shores this weekend.
Cathy and I, and our youngest three kids, joined some friends in a beach house for sand and surf, barbeque’s, kites, shopping, movies, and lots of other seashore fun!
You can see the photos by clicking the link below.
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My three favorite girls dressed as pirates for the New Pirates of the Caribbean movie…
Daughter Susie, wife Cathy, daughter Katie
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We share a birthday…May 6th. We’re probably not going to get together this year…I don’t think George could keep up with the pace of the celebration that my wife and close friends have planned for me, and I think Mr. Blair will be pretty busy with Iraq war politics.
But we’ll be thinking of them.
Incidentally, George, Tony and I share our birthday with some famous folks from history, including Sigmund Freud, Orson Welles, and Russia’s Tsar Nicholas II (a virtual “Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure” line-up of celebrities.)
Clooney is a year older than me, and Tony Blair is nine years older. Interestingly, I am the same age as the Space Needle, having been born May 6, 1962. Two days before I was born, Life Magazine ran a picture of the Needle on it’s cover, to document the opening of the Seattle World’s Fair. And I’m just two weeks younger than my wife Cathy, a beautiful woman who appears to have miraculously stopped aging in her twenties 🙂
My Mom once told me I was an early birthday present, as she turned 26 the day after I was born. Oh! That reminds me….I better wrap this up and do some shopping!…
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Here are some really nice older photos of my Mom and Dad. The first one is my mother right around the time she and Dad first got together. Mom recieved a Masters in History, and became a Califonia school teacher and professional illustrator, artist, and photagrapher. The second picture is my father at the same time, a charming scientist who would soon earn his PhD in Physics. The Third picture is my Mom with her family, sitting down for a meal. I love this one because of the view of 1950s Americana, a loving Kansas family with Ike’s picture adorning the dining room. The last picture is an unclassified shot of my father with a scientific team on an extended field assignment at the Nevada Test Site, where they were witnessing the detonation of nuclear weapons. (This pictures is now part of a file the Federal government is examining to determine if the thyroid cancer that took my father’s life was linked to this testing.) Dad is standing, second from left.
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Couch: Brandon, Katie, Cathy, Randy
Front: Danny, Susie, Andy, Kenny
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Kenny, Danny, and Susie helped us Cathy and I chose a pretty spruce from the Lions Club lot. It almost touches the ceiling. Katie, Brandon, Andy, and Kathy (Andy’s girlfriend) are joining us to add the final decorations!
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