Greetings from Alison Wiley here in Portland, Oregon. I'm a writer/doer/thinker who lives happily by putting people, nature and God ahead of accumulating more stuff. Read more →
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
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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 [...]
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