I’m on a 6:18 p.m. flight to Portland today which means I’ll be leaving straight from work (this also means that I can print out boarding passes on a dependable office printer, as opposed to rousing my asthmatic home unit). As I dragged my suitcase along behind me this morning on my one-block walk to [...]
Grades 5 through 9, my family lived in a house in the West Slope neighborhood of Portland (just off Canyon Drive, for those of you keeping track). It was a quite little pocket of suburbia, bordered on all sides by busy streets. Next door to us lived an elderly woman and her son. For the [...]
I’ve waited until the last moments of this Thursday to post here. I’ve got so much I’d like to write – about being a helper to a woman who fell at the corner of 18th and Walnut last night, making a dinner out of leftovers that was more satisfying that the original incarnation, the beauty [...]
In the midst of making french toast, prior to updating my veggie list, with a stalk of Brussels sprouts in the background.
You may have noticed that there’s been more activity on this blog in the last few days than in the whole previous month. That’s because it’s NaBloPoMo, the month during which people all across the world commit to post on their personal blogs every day for 30 days straight. Thing is, I haven’t actually signed [...]
In my family, my mother is the chief laundry officer. She takes the movement of clothing from clean to dirty to clean and folded once more very seriously. Tee-shirts get folded so that they stack precisely and fit most efficiently in the drawers. Pants are vigorously shaken before being smoothed and stacked. Even underwear is [...]
Wow. What happened to July? I am positively gobsmacked by the speed with which time is passing. I realize I should be used to it now, life has been accelerating ever since I graduated from college, but I still can’t help but be startled by it.
What’s new? Well, I was on TV again last week, [...]
The last two weeks have been a whirlwind of motion and activity, in which I wake up each morning, trying to orient myself to the ways in which life is different from how it was the day before.
Two Saturdays ago, Scott and I were waiting in the parking garage, planning on driving to the Bridge [...]
Yesterday was one of those perfect Sundays, where there were no pressing commitments or even a reason to leave the apartment. We lazed around, making breakfast just before noon and climbing back into bed to watch TV around 2 pm. However, I’ve come to discover that I’m not particularly comfortable with that type of unstructured [...]
This morning I went to work without a coat on. I exercised* before work this morning and even after taking a shower, I was overly warm. I had dressed myself in three layers (camisole, long sleeve black top and a drape-y/wrap-y sweater) and couldn’t deal with putting any additional warmth on my body. Checking the [...]
