![]() She extended such deep thought and care to them, and they all adored her.Īfter battling breast cancer three times Connie made the difficult decision to end treatment in May. Perhaps her greatest joy in these years was the birth of her five grandchildren. ![]() She and Tom were avid travelers, and she spent many hours volunteering at Mt. In retirement Connie continued to pursue many hobbies, including quilting, photography and beekeeping. Connie was a loving wife and mother who dedicated much of her adult life to creating a nurturing home and life for her family.Īfter years of living and working across Washington State and internationally Tom and Connie retired in western Washington in 2007. They had their first child in 1977, a son named Nicholas Anthony, followed by a daughter named Rebecca Lorraine in 1980. ![]() In her youth, she cultivated a strong Christian faith, which she contemplated, practiced, and modeled for the rest of her life.Ĭonnie married Thomas Som, her high school sweetheart, in 1974. ![]() Always a creative spirit, she grew up with a love of music, sewing, performing in the theatre, and writing for and editing her high school yearbook. In childhood, she moved frequently around the West with the constant companionship of her playful older sister Catherine (aka Cathie), and precocious younger brother Mark. ![]() The world lost a compassionate citizen, selfless wife, loving mother, and dear friend when Constance Joanne Som (known to everyone as Connie) died on June 24, 2018.Ĭonnie was born Octoin Fullerton, CA to loving parents Max and Carolyn Decker. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() She has to be a slut she works at a strip club and takes her clothes off for money….The people watching make assumptions about who they think I am, or cook up a story in their heads of who they want me to be. Those Mayson Men just keep getting better and better…… Autumn made assumptions of her own about Kenton, and now he needs to prove her wrong in order to protect her and their future. What he finds out is she’s not only beautiful, but also smart, funny, a fighter, and exactly the kind of woman he wants to share his life with. Kenton Mayson learned this lesson firsthand when he made assumptions about Autumn Freeman and the kind of woman she is based on what little information he had. They say when you assume that you make an ass out of you and me. A thing that is accepted as true or as certain to happen, without proof ![]() ![]() ![]() The man is a homosexual who one summer night is awe-struck by the glimpse of a heterosexual foreigner in the company of a woman. ![]() “Blue Eyes, Black Hair” dramatizes, in claustrophobic reductive scenes, the sexual suffering of an unnamed man and woman at a French seaside resort. Thematically, the new book follows a continuum begun more than 20 years ago with “The Ravishing of Lol Stein,” a compelling analysis of sexual self-destruction. Indeed, “Blue Eyes, Black Hair” most strongly resembles that book, though the earlier work kept much of the sexual anxiety suppressed in favor of a larger theme of revolutionary politics. ![]() ![]() One of her finest novels, “Destroy, She Said,” Duras turned into a film that she directed. Her novel, “The Lover,” received enormous acclaim in 1985, followed closely by “The Malady of Death” and now “Blue Eyes, Black Hair.” The three books retain the spare elliptical style for which Duras has long been noted, a style born in part out of her film work (“Hiroshima, Mon Amour”) and a brief identification with the nouveau roman of the ‘50s and ‘60s. Long recognized in Europe as a novelist specializing in psycho-sexual distress, Marguerite Duras has only recently found a wide American audience. ![]() |