Our son is coming home from Graduate School today for the Christmas Holiday Break. We haven't seen him since August when he left for his job as a graduate teaching/research assistant in the History Department at the University of North Dakota in Grand Forks. My wife received an email from him and he as already has his old summer job back as a cashier at a local retail store for the Christmas Break so he can earn some money before he goes back to school in January. When we ask him what he wanted for Christmas among other things were the DVDs of "Jefferson In Paris"( a wonderful movie about Thomas Jefferson when he was our ambassador to France) and "Young Mr Lincoln" starring Henry Fonda and of course "DIRECTED BY JOHN FORD". I love both of these movies. As you can see, we are very proud of him.
It looks like this Christmas Season what with the comings and goings of our family we will be spending a lot of time at the Jackson County International Airport picking up and dropping off family. BTW, it's not easy to get from Grand Forks, North Dakota to Medford, Oregon. You have to take a flyght from Grand Forks to Minnneapolis and then to Seattle and then from Seattle to Medford.
