This page provides links to archived PDFs of all posts published on News from Nan in 2021.
Note: All of the PDF files linked below are viewable (here), as well as downloadable and printable. Any links you encounter in the PDF files might (or might NOT) work.
Highlights
This is a summary/overview of our year.
Highlights 2021
Activities, events
Christmas
Easter
Fourth of July non-race
Grandpets in San Jose
Marin coast
Napa County
New car: Steely Dan
Petsitting
Phoenix plant
Picking up trash
Running a virtual 5K
Sonoma Developmental Center
Sonoma Parks: Doran
Sonoma Parks: Bodega Head
Sonoma Parks: Botanical Garden
Corona diary
Set of posts about the COVID pandemic of 2020-2021.
Corona diary #16: Pet peeves
Corona diary #17: Indoor seating
Family history, genealogy
Nan and Anna’s trip to Michigan in 1987
(Anna) Decoration Day
(Anna) Honoring veterans
(Anna) Updates
(Dick) Johnson family careers
(Dick) Johnson family in World War II
(Dick) Family involvement in the Manhattan Project
(Dick) Ration books
(Dick) Updates
Health
Languages, linguistics
Multilingual posts in Dutch, German, and Spanish
Post in Dutch about a 1955 travel memory
Nan’s writings
In about 1990, Nan wrote these remembrances about her childhood in Minden City, Michigan, where she lived between 1906 and 1924.
Visit to Nan’s Schreiter aunts, 1914
Nan’s introduction to family history
Thanksgivings
Photography
Slideshows about running
Slideshows about summer fun
Places we’ve lived
In 2021-2023 we did a series of posts describing all the places we had lived, from birth onward. Some of those posts are linked below.
(Anna) Forestville, Michigan
(Anna) Marysville, Michigan
(Dick) Tonawanda, New York
(Anna) Downey, California
Technology
Visualization (viz) of the day: News from Nan posts
Visualization (viz) of the day: News from Nan tag cloud
Visualization (viz) of the day: News from Nan traffic analysis
Whatever happened to VR Communications?
Travel
Hawaii in June
Minnesota in March
Minnesota in September (Part 1)
Minnesota in September (Part 2)
