Category: My Family

Without a family, one seldom thinks long term

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Jenny Craig, me and South Africa

Just me and Jenny Craig

Well, here I am at the Los Angeles Zoo. Thanks to Jenny Craig I am down  68 lbs  which feels very good. The problem is that according to the BMI (Body Mass Index) I am ‘very obese’…. which is funny since I am 6’4″ and wear a size 36 pair of shorts. However, I plan to drop a bit more.

Karen is in South Africa with her cookbook by Jenny Craig and an entire case of Jenny Craig “complete Start” cereal… so she’s all set. She said she was going to take a picture of her J.C. case, her and Capetown and send it to the fine people at Jenny Craig.

Sometimes, I think with all the feasting and famine in human history that we are naturally prone to yo-yo in our dieting… but I like it here as a thiner me… so I plan to continue losing and stay a while… if not forever.

Roger Freberg

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Karen in London

Welcome to Heathrow Ariport

Thanks to the internet we can all keep better track of our families and keep in touch.

My daughter Karen has just arrived in London and I am sure she is making her way around the shops and inspecting the ‘duty free’ stores for her return. But aside from the shopping, there is always a sense of history and adventure in seeing new sites and new people. England is one of the many ancestral homes of our families, but being Americans, we are a mix of many great peoples. Karen and Kristin are keeping track over the areas each has traveled and Karen was trying to lay ‘claim’ to the North Pole because she flew over it, but Kristin said she must stand — not fly — on it first.

Kristin is very well traveled, although I am sure she would have liked to visit Iraq, Kuwait and the Gulf States under better circumstances. However, she earned a perspective few have.

So, the internet allows me to share and enjoy some of their lifes… even if I am at home.

Roger Freberg

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Remember that special ‘mother’ who made you a ‘daddy’!

HappyMothers Day to everyone 2007!

Happy Mother’s Day to all mothers! Often we forget to thank those wonderful people in our lives who have chosen — in this day and age — to become mothers. Mother’s Day today is remembered by most — and probably best — as a time for thanking mothers for all they do…. although the history is political. 

Happy Mother’s Day, Laura… we love and appreciate you. Kristin’s flowers and ‘bear’ was especially nice.

Roger Freberg

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Up Coming Graduations… at Southern Cal & Ted Koppel

Fight On for USC!To be honest, there have been very few graduations i have ever attended. Some of the reasons are typically male… I wasn’t around.

When my eldest daughter Kristin was graduating from West Point, I was coaching at the California State High School Meet. Now, don’t groan… my middle daughter Karen was competing on the same day and I stayed and coached — while Mom went to West Point.

Not that I have attended many of my own graduations. I missed my two graduate degree festivities except for a small Beta Gamma Sigma ceremony the day before at Southern Cal.

This time it will be different. I will at long last see a Southern Cal Graduation as Karen recieves her Masters in Strategic Public Relations. Interestingly enough, Ted Koppel will be the Commencement Speaker in the main ceremony.

This will be fun … I will be coming home.

Roger freberg

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the Professor wears “Prada”

Books to inform the mind... fashion to please the soul

Who doesn’t like nice things? Laura’s ‘QuelQues Fleurs’ has always mesmerized me.
For an early mother’s day present we went out and bought Laura some nice sunglasses… not just any sunglasses, but some from Neiman Marcus… Prada’s. They were perfect. The right amount of protection from the wind ( we live in a very windy place where the wind reaches an average of 40 mph every afternoon) and sun.

Jan Moran has done a nice job with making perfumes undestandable… with her Fabulous Fragrances and Fabulous Fragrances II books. Although with all of the recent additions and offerings over the last 7 years, she should really come out with a third book.

I am looking forward to Luca Turin’s new book coming out sometime in 2008… check it out.

Roger Freberg