Monthly Archives: February 2012

Happy New Year 2012!

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The birth of Gillian Brooke on 31 July 2011, was the highlight of the year
for parents, Jody and Bill Gilmyers, and Grandma Carole, as illustrated in “The
Year in Pictures.” Such joy to see Gillian grow and explore her world! For those
of you on Facebook, I’ll try and keep the photos coming.

A marvelous surprise for Carole, was when Bill told me that he had a
birthday gift for me in the garage, but it was too heavy to bring into the house.
Upon entering the garage, there was Tim, birthday balloons in hand who had
flown in from Portland, Oregon, to celebrate my seventieth birthday, 12
September 2012. Alas, Laura’s school and work demands prevented her from
joining us.

Tim and Laura continue to enjoy Portland, Oregon. Tim is Director of
Multimedia for DealerPeak, a company that develops websites for car
dealerships. Laura is continuing to work on a degree in music, specializing in
voice. Bill has accepted a job with Kaiser-Permanente in Oakland, and he and
Jody and Gillian and family dog Casey, a two-year old rambunctious black lab-mix,
have relocated to Walnut Creek. Of course I will miss having them close by, but I
love the Bay Area, having spent a graduate school year at Berkeley, and it is half-
way to Tim and Laura in Portland.

I have signed up for non-credit courses at California State University
Long Beach for the winter: “Conversational Spanish” (I took 4 years in high
school); “Memoir Writing”; and “Bridge.” I played a lot of Bridge in college when I
should have been studying, and I am looking forward to finding some new card
playing friends. Of course, I plan to continue my history research, and my
brother, Gary, gave me a fabulous Christmas gift. My father, in doing his
genealogical and family history research, taped “Conversations with Lola,” my
great aunt. Gary had those five old fashioned black reels, each about an hour
long, converted into CDs. These, along with “Memoir Writing” will provide grist
for my blog, Historymama that Tim has set up for me. Stay tuned!

Peace and love, Carole