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 [...]
Entries Tagged as 'land'
St. Patrick’s Day & Loving A Place
March 17th, 2010 · 5 Comments · sustainability
Tags: Columbia Gorge·land·Paddy Moloney·place·soul·St. Patrick's day
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 [...]
Tags: Colleen Kaleda·concrete·culture·demolition·development·environment·EPA·land·Leo Reynolds·life·neighborhood·outdoors·pavement
