Personal News:
In many ways this section overlaps the others.  So if you've looked over the website this will probably be a recap. 

Tonja and I are back from Britain and trying to catch up on all the work and house stuff.   St Francis was purchased by Avamere, so she's adjusting to all the changes that brings.  

Cail was again nominated for the Irene Ryans at WWU and appeared in Twelfth Night and Measure for  Measure at the Skagit River Shakespeare Festival.

Tanner has moved to Boston with some musical friends and is working at a grocery store and writing songs, playing and buying guitars.

Daen is back in Alaska, working full-time at Wal-Mart. He's moved out and living with his girlfriend, Kaya.

Sheridan is entering her junior year of high school and is active in Choir, and Drama, Debate and Forensics.

Ian is starting 5th grade and is interested in Gymnastics, Magic and Sword Fighting.

Miranda is almost 4 with all that that implies.  ;-)  Adorable and ....

My family is awesome and their support keeps me sane.

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Here's our 2006 Christmas/New Years Letter--all twelve stanzas in verse.

I finished a CD summer 2005:  Some of the Parts.   It is available for sale at CD Baby. and 50 digital download services including: iTunes, Rhapsody and MusicNet.   Thanks to everyone who has supported my music over the years, most especially, Tonja, who urged me to record and paid for the first sessions.   The amount of learning that went into the production was staggering.  I plan for this to be the first of at least 2 more CDs. 

Last year I became the President of the Board of Directors for the Shakespeare NorthWest Association (Formerly the Western Washington Shakespeare Festival).  I will also be involved in grant writing and website development over the coming year.

Last year, I worked toward my National Board Teaching  certification and will find out the results sometime in November.