This page provides links to archived PDFs of all posts published on News from Nan in 2025.
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 2025
Activities, Events
We’ve particularly enjoyed the many family events we’ve been privileged to attend this year!
Activities roundup: June 2025
Ellen and Rick’s 60-30 party
Family vacation at Pajaro Dunes
Miranda and Hrayr’s engagement party
Miranda’s graduation from SJSU
AI-enhanced
For the second year in a row, we used Perplexity AI and other AI assistants to help create some of the new and reprised posts, specifically to:
- Do background research
- Summarize and contextualize existing text
- Generate new text
Anna’s migration retrospective: MI to CA
Birthday tribute: Adolph Riedel
Birthday tribute: Anna Moran
Birthday tribute: Eva Robins
Birthday tribute: Harold Johnson
Birthday tribute: Henry Rebmann
Birthday tribute: Jansje Barendsen
Birthday tribute: John van Raaphorst
Dick’s migration retrospective: NY to CA
Third anniversary of my open heart surgery
Travel retrospective: Hawaii
Astronomy
In 2024 Dick bought a Seestar smart telescope, and he enjoys photographing celestial objects and writing about them. He even created a website with his favorites!
Astronomy photos with a wide field of view
Organizing my astronomy pictures
Astronomy pictures website
Spring is galaxy season
Family History, Genealogy
This past year we created slideshows using some of our favorite ancestor photos and records.
50 years of running
Anna’s migration retrospective: MI to CA
Birthday tribute: Adolph Riedel
Birthday tribute: Anna Moran
Birthday tribute: Eva Robins
Birthday tribute: Harold Johnson
Birthday tribute: Henry Rebmann
Birthday tribute: Jansje Barendsen
Birthday tribute: John van Raaphorst
Dick’s migration retrospective: NY to CA
Family history slideshows: Anna’s maternal line
Family history slideshows: Anna’s paternal line
Family history slideshows: Dick’s maternal line
Family history slideshows: Dick’s’s paternal line
Mary Glover’s cross-stitch
Women in the family
Health
Third anniversary of my open heart surgery
Travel
We enjoy both reliving our travel experiences from the past, and writing about our current trips.
Mother’s Day visit to Minnesota
Thanksgiving in Minnesota
Travel retrospective: Alaska
Travel retrospective: Australia and New Zealand
Travel retrospective: Canada
Travel retrospective: Central America
Travel retrospective: Colorado and the Mountain States
Travel retrospective: Cuba
Travel retrospective: Europe
Travel retrospective: Hawaii
Travel retrospective: Mexico
Travel retrospective: South America
Travel retrospective: Spain and Morocco
Other
