This page provides links to archived PDFs of all posts published on News from Nan in 2020.

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 2020

Activities, events

New Year’s visit from the Blomquists
Walk around Carmel
Ellen and Rick’s 25th anniversary
Gillian and Mike’s 20th anniversary
Matthew and Miranda’s graduations
Our move to Sonoma County
Leaving Santa Clara County
New grandpuppies Skylar and Bailey
Hiking at Quicksilver County Park
Rain and football
Rest in peace, Dick Van Raaphorst
Remembering others we lost this year
Sonoma Parks: Crane Creek
Sonoma Parks: Crane Creek and others
Sonoma Parks: Foothill and others
Sonoma Parks: Shiloh Ranch
Sonoma Parks: Tolay Lake
Sonoma State University
Thanksgiving at the Livengoods’

Computer history

Early computer games

Corona (Covid-19) diaries

Corona diaries #01: Work, projects, food…
Corona diaries #02: Church, hiking, running…
Corona diaries #03: Toilet paper from China
Corona diaries #04: Wildflowers, bees…
Corona diaries #05: Chalk games, art…
Corona diaries #06: Escape to Davis
Corona diaries #07: The mad elevator-button pusher
Corona diaries #08: Hiking in the Sonoma Valley and Alviso
Corona diaries #09: Shoreline nature preserve
Corona diaries #10: Urban hike at Stanford
Corona diaries #11: Hiking at Riverfront park
Corona diaries #12: Birds, wind, and water
Corona diaries #13: Lightning, fire, and smoke
Corona diaries #14: Betwixt and between
Corona diaries #15: Somo Village

Family history, genealogy

Roy Rogers rules

Anna’s family

Happy Valentine’s Day from Hoppy
Happy 100th birthday, Kelley Riedel!
My van Raaphorst cousins

Dick’s family

My French connection
How I learned to draw cartoons
Johnson family migration from New York state to California
We were never Moseleys

Travel

Trip to Minnesota in October