Special Olympics
Beside being a Loan Officer for over twenty-five years in Seattle and Bellevue, Jeff was an assistant softball coach helping many wonderful athletes in the Special Olympics for four years until COVID showed up. We called ourselves the ‘Issaquah Lions.’ In the middle of the pandemic, my wife Deb Ritchie, and myself, moved from Sammamish, WA to a shy 10-acre horse farm in Yelm, WA. that my wife aptly named Admiralty Farm. This is our home where Deb teaches people to ride horses in the English, Hunter/Jumper discipline. I quickly learned how to pick stalls, fix fences, and drive a tractor. It’s beautiful here in the county.
Yelm, WA. — “Pride of the Prairie.”
Theater Feeds My Other Soul
When I’m not helping seniors with their Reverse Mortgage, driving the tractor, or watching football, I write plays. My play Leaving Brooklyn* was produced by Queens Theatre in NY in the fall of 2018 in their 88-seat black box. It’s the story of a Brooklyn family where the older son (Paul) has been invited to spring training camp in Vero Beach, FL. Dad had been a minor league player for the Dodgers but for some unbeknownst reason, never made the leap to the majors. Paul’s younger brother, Danny, is disabled and will never be able to follow that same passion.
Set against the backdrop of the 1955 Brooklyn Dodgers/NY Yankees World Series (the only year the ‘bums’ ever won the World Series in Brooklyn), it’s a gritty, funny, and heart-wrenching tale.
The play I’m currently working on is called the Unrequited. This story follows the trail of five female mental patients in Nazi Germany in 1940 on the eve of them being sent from the psychiatric institute at Wiesloch, Germany to a newly created transfer center where they will receive special care. The nurse in charge of this group, Nurse Ava Gerhard, has a secret. And so our story begins…
I’ve read in several publications and upon extensive research, I now know it to be true, “If it hadn’t been for the medical community, the holocaust would never have occurred.” Purification of the race was paramount. The T4 program was established to eliminate useless eaters.
*Jeff is a member of the Dramatists Guild
FPA
Jeff is a member of FPA of Puget Sound
Clay Selland has been the president of Signet Mortgage for over 20 years and has been a CPA since 1986. I live in WA and Clay lives in CA but we both appreciate numbers and that is a cool common ground for a couple of mortgage guys. Combine that with outdoor activities, dogs, occasional time-off and you have a winning recipe for optimism all around.
Clay Selland has been the president of Signet Mortgage for over 20 years and has been a CPA since 1986. I live in WA and Clay lives in CA but we both appreciate numbers and that is a cool common ground for a couple of mortgage guys. Combine that with outdoor activities, dogs, occasional time-off and you have a winning recipe for optimism all around.
