For those of you who attended Western Washington University (especially Kris) you might have met a remarkable woman named Kelly Jackson. She was a suitemate of mine in the Fairhaven dorms; both a beautiful woman with a pure soul and the best giggle I’ve ever heard. Since she was an artist, I used to hang around her room and tell her boring stories of Monterey (my high school years gone by) just so I could have an excuse to be around her and watch her work. She was brilliant. Probably still is. The loser that I am, I lost touch.
The point? She had an amazing story behind her. She was an orphaned Vietnamese baby that was being taken to France to be rescued and adopted along with a lot of other children, but the plane crashed and only half survived. For some reason she was taken to San Francisco where she was adopted by a Renton couple. So ended the story when we were in college.
Now the story has a new ending. Or a beginning, I should say. Here is an article the Seattle Times did up in April about her. For all you romantics (Brenda, I’m talking to you) read this. They should write a book or make a movie or maybe just keep it for themselves.
What a great story! I love your sites new look by the way. It’s truly smashing.
Thanks Max. I’m going to try and help you move yours to Movable Type and then if you want to give it a new design that would be a good time. Talk to you soon!
Yeah, move to MT. Despite what I wrote about all my travails, it’s really not difficult if you go with one of their default templates, or download a premade one from another site and customize it (like Katie did.) I ran into trouble because I stubbornly insisted on transferring my old template into MT.
Yeah, I remember Kelly. I remember . . . hehe, uh, yup.
i think it is neat how the spirit of “helpfullness” just spreads and spreads and spreads….
heh heh heh
Yes to articles that warm a romantic’s heart! Thank you, Katie Frequently 🙂
What a story! Just checking to see what you are up to! If you get a chance…shoot me an email.