Over the last 15 years, I have taken many trips through the Columbia River Gorge on my mini-tugboat, Lizzie G. In the Pacific Northwest and perhaps elsewhere there used to be a tradition of naming commercial tugboats for the patriarchs and matriarchs of the boat owner’s family. Lizzie G is named for my mother, Elizabeth Gibbs, although the only person who called her Lizzie was my father. My parents would be 112 and 114 today if still alive, but I think of them both when I am on the boat. My father loved boats – my mother not so much.