My alarm went off at 7:09 this morning, and I hit snooze. Seven minutes later, when it went off again, instead of hitting the snooze, I turned the whole thing off and dropped directly back into a dream.
I dreamt that I was in a house that looked a lot like the one [...]
I left work yesterday, spaced out and ready to get home. In the first block of the 15 it takes me to return to my neighborhood, I heard someone pounding a car window and yelling. Stopping short, I bent down and realized I was looking into the eyes of my friend Shay, who [...]
I woke up this morning like I always do on Monday mornings, just a little bit reluctantly. I got myself into the shower before the 7:50 am edition of Marketplace started and out of the bathroom seven minutes later than I had promised my roommate. Thankfully, he’s an easygoing guy who doesn’t start [...]
For the third day in a row, I am abundantly, exuberantly, inexplicably happy. What’s more, I am overflowing with gratitude for the number of wonderful people in my life. I realize that officially, this is the wrong time of year to wax poetic about the things that are causing me joy and for [...]
I spent the morning at the Italian Market, first having breakfast with a friend at Sabrina’s and then shopping 9th Street for ingredient for spaghetti sauce. I had an apartment full of people over tonight to eat the sauce over angel hair pasta and with bread spread with roasted garlic. I love having [...]
Despite the fact that I overslept this morning and leaped out of bed and into the shower with enough force as to violently bruise my left shin, I am in a ridiculously cheerful mood. Maybe it’s the venti coffee I bought myself in order to wake up, or the rare breakfast sandwich (egg and [...]
Topping the list of my favorite things about visiting Portland each year (in addition to seeing my family) is going to New Seasons. It is one of the best, most appealing, well stocked and friendly-staffed grocery stores I’ve ever been in. I remember vividly the first year I went back to Portland after [...]
Above Average Jane has initiated a conversation about how faith and religion effect the political views of those on the left side of the aisle. She is asking bloggers, particularly political bloggers, to post something on or around Martin Luther King, Jr. Day (January 16th) that addresses,
how their beliefs, if they have any, impact [...]
My apartment has smelled the same for as long as I can remember. When I was a child and we’d come to visit my grandparents, I would take a deep inhalation of breath as we walked across the threshold, because it was the smell, more than the sights, sounds or people, that really let [...]
A couple days after Christmas, still feeling a little down and blue, I took myself over to the main Goodwill store in Portland. There were tears in my eyes as I steered my mother’s unwieldy 10 year old Nissan Quest into a narrow parking spot. I got out of the car feeling sorry [...]
