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New Baby, Free T-Shirts & the Power of Sharing Personal Stories
Exciting news! My wife and I welcomed our baby daughter, Maya, into the world last week. To celebrate our new Mexican-American daughter, I am giving away my “Gringo Latino” T-shirts, available in green and white*, to anyone who shares this blog post and accompanying...
The Pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela: A Once-in-a-Lifetime Adventure
For years, I only dreamed about walking the 1000+ year old pilgrimage known as “Camino de Santiago,” or, “The Way of St. James” across Northern Spain, leading to the central cathedral in Santiago de Compostela. I scribbled it on the top of my bucket list. But I...
Remembering Russ Anderson (Who Always Had a Joke)
Following is the second in a series of oral histories from the people featured in the book Faces of a Fish Empire. (Read the first story here.) Jim Laur (pictured above, left) remembered the following story about driving the Empire Fish truck with his co-workers Russ...