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The Forno Hut After 41 Years

July 21, 2015

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41 years ago, at 6 years old, I climbed across a glacier holding onto my grandmother’s hand to reach the Forno Hut. It is located in a stunning little corner of the Swiss Alps known as the Engadine region. Since then, I have been hanging on a 6-year old’s memories of sleeping in a bunk room with strangers and having to cross a wide expanse of granite in the middle of the night, again holding my grandmother’s hand, to go pee in the outhouse perched above the hut. Last week, after 41 years, with my 10-year old son and husband in tow, I made good on my dream of making it back to the Forno. Read more >

Categories: Travel

ADEC: An Amazing Resource

April 14, 2015

'Marjorie's Dance,' a memorial quilt designed by Lori Mason

Last week I exhibited my memorial quilts at the 2015 Association for Death Education and Counseling (ADEC) Conference in San Antonio. It was a completely new experience for me to be sharing my work in this capacity. My audience consisted of a varied group of professionals working in the field of death, dying, and bereavement – an audience that was immediately receptive to the idea of memorial quilts. I asked them as many questions about their work as they did mine, filling the time with a lively exchange of information. Read more >

Categories: Memorial Quilts, Travel Tagged: ADEC, memorial quilts

I-84 from Pendleton to Hood River, Oregon

April 7, 2015

The drive from Pendleton, Oregon to Hood River, Oregon on Interstate 84 takes you from open farm land to the scenic Columbia Gorge. It’s also the major trucking route through that part of the state. I was a passenger for this entire stretch of road and became transfixed on the images I could capture out of my side window. The following are a smattering of what I took.

photo of a truck taken by Lori Mason on her road trip

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Categories: Everyday Life, Travel Tagged: eastern Oregon, I-84, road trip, trucks

Amazing Cliffs from Zion to Cortez, Colorado

March 30, 2015

Traveling from Zion to Cortez, Colorado served up some crazy cool cliffs and canyons. In Zion, we took a hike up to Angel’s Landing, complete with chains to hang on to above 1000 foot drops.

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Categories: Everyday Life, Travel Tagged: grand canyon, road trip, vermillion cliffs, zion national park

Winning Vistas Between Portland and Bryce Canyon

March 23, 2015

There’s nothing like seeing the landscape of our beautiful country go by from the ground. I’m on the road with my husband and 10-year old son, traveling the Southwest by car.

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Categories: Everyday Life, Travel Tagged: Bryce Canyon, eastern Oregon, road trip

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From Lori’s Notebook

  • Allan’s Wings

    Back in the winter of 2021 when my work was featured in What Women Create Magazine, I received a lovely email from Tricia in South Carolina who was touched by the article, enough so that she saved it in her files, knowing that one day she would reach out again.

  • From Lace to Snowflakes

    I was fortunate enough to have met both of my Austrian great-grandmothers.

  • Carmen’s Merienda

    It is always bittersweet when previous clients get back in touch to request a memorial quilt in honor of an additional family member who has passed away.

  • Kathy’s Waves
  • Mark’s van der Rohe

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