Women over eighty and their younger friends gather each Thursdays at Tsunami Bookstore, currently, in the large back room at Tsunami Books from 2-4pm.

Discussion ranges from politics, religion, crime, health, local news, local goings-on, families, recent sermons, books read, etc. There are no formally-planned discussions.

There can be three women, or there can be 15. The conversation is interesting every time.

We welcome your participation, and drop-ins are welcome.

The "Thunderegg" is the Oregon State Rock. With a volcanic heritage, it was formed in heat, cooled into pebble-thru-boulder-sized shapes that some people know as dragon eggs. Ancient Native American legends suggest that when the Thunder Spirits living in the highest recesses of snowcapped Mount Hood and Mount Jefferson became angry with one another, amid violent thunder and lightning storms they would hurl masses of these spherical rocks at each other. The hostile gods obtained these weapons by stealing eggs from the Thunderbirds' nests, thus the source of the name "Thundereggs."

Gen Smith recognized that we who were gathering together resembled Thundereggs: the women over 80 were old and grey on the outside, and beautifully marbled (thundereggs) and crystalized (geodes) by heat (and life) on the inside. Thus we became the Thundereggs.

We began meeting for soup on Thursday mid-afternoons in 1997 with octagenarians Alice Thompson, Gen Smith, and Florence Douglas. Martha Osgood was everyone's transportation. The conversations were so stimulating that we drew younger participants and had to move to Southtowne.  We've met at Zenon, Coffee Corner, Grape and Grain, Blooming Branch and now we meet at Tsunami Books.

We welcome your participation, and drop-ins are welcome.

We honor the following women:

Alice Thompson, 93, who died in 1999
Gen Smith, 95, who died in 2006
Florence Douglas who died at 100+ in 2009