Last Friday afternoon here in Portland, Oregon brought us the most dazzling weather of the young year, with sunshine that sparkled like diamonds off the Willamette River. I celebrated the beauty of the day with a run along said riverfront and then meeting up with Stephanie Routh, definitely my best coffee date of the year [...]
Entries Tagged as 'community'
Mind-Hiking With Stephanie Routh
February 21st, 2010 · No Comments · community, sustainability, transportation
Tags: Alice B. Toeclips; Willamette Pedestrian Coalition·Portland·Stephanie Routh
Enchanted With What I’ve Already Got, Part II
December 1st, 2009 · 1 Comment · community, food & drink, home & garden
What do I feel like eating tonight? Shall I drop by the grocery store for it, or go out? That is a game I’ve often played in my life, a modern game common in developed countries because we have so many choices, so much food, so many restaurants. It hasn’t been proven, though, that the [...]
Enchanted With What I’ve Already Got, Part I
November 29th, 2009 · 4 Comments · community, lifestyle
Remember when we were teenagers and it was so great when our parents would leave and we’d have the house to ourselves? A part of me is evidently still a teenager, because my husband left early yesterday morning for a week of wonky policy-type stuff in the east, and I’m all atwitter over having the [...]
This And That, Approaching Thanksgiving
November 24th, 2009 · No Comments · community, entertainment, food & drink, work
I’ve added a delicious new book by Amy Minato to Books I Love, one that would be great to read over the Thanksgiving weekend . . . . at work, the rideshare proposal I’ve been working on for months with many others is finally reaching closure, thank the Goddess . . . . . Green [...]