Welcome to the 2025 Tinkleflick newsletter. We hope you are all well and having a Happy Holiday Season.
Natalie
Natalie is living her best life as a sophomore at Pacific Lutheran University where she is majoring in social work and playing on the ultimate frisbee team. She will be leaving on the first of the year for a full semester study-away in Trinidad and Tobego. It is difficult to believe that, when she comes back from her study-away, she will be going into her junior year in college!
Noah
Noah is established in his career at Frontier Precision in Portland where he works with Geospacial Mapping Hardware. Noah travels quite a bit for work these days but also finds time to travel with Wendy (they went to Mexico City this year together and are going to Europe in the summer) and we get the grandcat (Lola) when he is out of town on extended trips.
Wendy
Wendy continues to work at Heritage Distilling Company where she has been for the last ten years (how time flies). She also remains very active in the Gig Harbor Dragon Boat Club and serves as its President because why just paddle? They travel each summer to races and have been very successful.
Ralph
Ralph continues to teach at Pacific Lutheran University with a part-time law practice. In his spare time, he has too many hobbies. Ralph plays in a band, Mock Defense, that gigs regularly in and around Gig Harbor and he is working on a personal music project (it’s still a work in progress but, if you are interested, you can find information here) and continues to sail (the sailboat is now finally moored in Gig Harbor) and is on a bowling team which is bowling in the national tournament in Reno in June).
In Memoriam
This has been a difficult and sad year for us in the Flick Family. We lost our beloved “Paco” in May. We will miss him always.
We also lost our little friend, Lulu, in April. She was a good little dog and we will miss her..
We hope you have a happy Holiday Season and a safe and successful New Year!