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Are you wondering where to vacation this summer without fighting vast crowds of people, or spending an arm and a leg? I think you’d love the South Coast of Oregon. I recently spent one of the happiest weeks of my life there, and I’m smitten. Moonstruck. Head over heels. Like any person in love, I’ve got […]
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My readers told me in December’s survey that they want suggestions of good books to read, both fiction and nonfiction. Today’s post does that. Both books that I’m reviewing today share a theme of coping with change, i.e. a world that is warming. I read books to get deliciously lost in worlds and lives different from my […]
Tags: adapting in place·Barbara Kingsolver·change·Flight Behavior·Making Home·Sharon Astyk
Bright, sunny skies today in Montreal, Canada, where I’m enjoying a car-free* vacation with my husband Thor. We chose Montreal partly because it has the luxury of a good transit system. In rural areas and small towns, which I also love to visit, cars
In Part I of Small Towns Rock, I described how I feel I’m straddling the urban-rural divide since I live in Portland, Oregon, but steadily travel for my work into its small towns and rural areas. I love all these places — but wish they loved each other more. In particular, I
Tags: built environment·crime·La Grande·square dancing·Ten Depot·urban-rural divide
I’ve been thinking a lot about the urban-rural divide, i.e. the lack of goodwill and respect between the city-folk of the United States and the folk of its smaller towns and rural areas.* While I live in a big city (Portland, Oregon is the 23rd largest city in the U.S) my work takes me steadily to small towns […]
Tags: urban-rural divide
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