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St. Patrick’s Day & Loving A Place

March 17th, 2010 · 5 Comments · sustainability

Yesterday while working on my novel during the vanpool ride to and from work (the novel that has pre-empted frequent blog-posts), my fingers started writing (it wasn’t my mind, it was my fingers) that the protagonist actually loved a certain place in the world more than she had loved her ex-husband.  And she had loved [...]

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Ousting The Pavement

July 9th, 2008 · No Comments · community, health & well being, lifestyle

Guest post by award-winning journalist Colleen Kaleda:
My husband and I recently bought a 96 year old house in a close-in neighborhood of Northeast Portland. If our land could talk — oh what would it say? Perhaps that it wants to shed its excess pavement.

Our sidewalk still has hand-forged steel rings where horses used [...]

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Celebrating the Fourth, Diamond-Cut Style

July 4th, 2008 · No Comments · community, entertainment, food & drink, health & well being, simplicity

Happy Fourth of July! It’s our nation’s birthday. I’ve posted Ideas for celebrating below, based on this basic life-principle we all tend to forget:
A nation starts its life in the beginning as land, as earth — before people arrived to populate it. And that land, the soil, water and things that grow on it, are [...]

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