Gutsy Lady - Alice Roosevelt Longworth

Alice Roosevelt Longworth, daughter of President Theodore Roosevelt, thought so highly of one motto to liven up a party that she sewed it on a pillow—“If you can't say something good about someone, sit right here by me."

My first encounter with Marion Reed, Gov. Dixy Lee Ray's sister

Dixy Lee Ray (1914–1994) was an American politician who served as the 17th governor of the state of Washington from 1977 to 1981.  I attended Dixy Lee Ray's inaugural party at the Inn of the Quay in Vancouver, WA along with my classmates from Evergreen State College.  As I passed the Governors party I knelt down beside her sister, Marion Reed.  (As the first resident of the Governor's Mansion without a First Lady, Ray hired her elder sister Marion R. Reid to serve as her official hostess).  I joined the group for quite some time, watched closely by the Secret Service.  Finally someone asked me how I knew Marion Reed.  I said that I didn't.  I was just telling her that her gown had drifted into the aisle and I was afraid it would get stepped on.  Many years later I met Marion Reed again at the Fox Island Museum.  But that encounter is a story for another time.

My Geocaching Name is Rose Red

My Geocaching name is Rose Red from the Brothers Grimm's story "Snow White and Rose Red".  Snow White was quiet and passive.  I'm not.