December 9, 2023
Bruce and May Oksol
____ Brazos Blvd Apt ___
Euless, TX 76039
Hi, guys, binary and non-binary,
Just a short note to update you.
Bruce and May are still doing well in north Texas. Both are in good health. Bruce is 72 years old and May is 29.
May has become quite the accomplished painter with more friends in Dallas than she thought she would ever have. Pretty amazing after all these years.
Bruce lives and breathes biking and blogging. Google themilliondollarway oksol.
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Daughter Kiri, son-in-law Josh, and their three daughters all doing well, here in north Texas, also.
Kiri lives and breathes paddle boarding. She participated in her first-ever 31-mile (actually 33 miles) paddle boarding race on the Tennessee River this fall, the Chattajack. First-time ever for her. 772 participants with a waiting list of 200 who did not race. Google Chattajack. Click on Results, 2023, scroll to 7 hours 43 minutes, or thereabouts.
Arianna is in her third year at Vanderbilt, Nashville, TN, majoring in government policy, secondary eduction, or something along those lines. I can’t keep up.
Olivia is a senior in high school. Olivia, as a junior in high school was captain of her high school soccer team that took the Texas championship last spring. Her robotics team competed at the state level (I never figured out how they did; what medals they won) and she soloed during the summer participating in a USAF-sponsored program with 30 hours of flying time. She has a USAF-ROTC scholarship to the college of her choice. TBD.
Sophia, nine years old and a fourth grader spends as much time at our apartment as she does at her parents’. Sophia and Bruce have converted one of Bruce’s two geographically-separated garages into a “Bat Cave.” The Bat Cave’s location is undisclosed. Awesome.
Sophia has won a gold, silver, and bronze medal at jiu-jitsu tournaments in Dallas. Her lack of a “killer-instinct” will limit her chances toward national / international fame but her South Korean instructor says he can change that. Limited soccer activity this year but she will follow her older sister in soccer success. She will likely become a soccer player - coach..
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Daughter Laura, son-in-law Tim, and their twins Judah and Levi, at age 3.75 years (birthdays in March) are doing well in Portland, Oregon. May and I try to visit every other month, traveling separately to maximize the time the grandsons see us.
Tim is building cutting-edge Class 8 electric Cascadias and the Freightliner eM2 in one of only two world-class truck factories in the US. He occasionally has one parked in the front of his house.
Laura runs a sweat shop turning out highly sought after jeans, jackets, and Covid masks for toddlers, and purses for adults. She has several state-of-the-art programmable sewing machines as well as traditional Singers for her two employees. It appears the younger employee, Judah, will have as his high school science project the process involved to develop a sewing machine oil optimized for the high-humidity Pacific Northwest market.
Levi? He seems to be more grounded, more interested in high-tech Duplo (Lego) trains.
And that’s the annual update.
Bruce and May Oksol
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