Drop-kicked into Hell?

As Lee and I were packing up to leave Portland last weekend, I commented on how nice it had been to see out my rearview window during our three-week stay there. “Well, maybe we don’t need to always look behind us,” she replied. “We just gotta keep moving forward!” I laughed in agreement. And as [...]

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Lady Lovely

So it’s been sometime since I have had a chance to voice in the written word. Most of my time has been spent capturing all the moments around me. My concern to voice started when Lara and I started to “plan” our journey home. (Plan has been a bad word for me on this journey [...]

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Sightseeing

Stomping around the small little seaside town of, well Seaside, Oregon, last weekend, I discovered an interesting book called the “Tao of Now,” which is a collection of short poems and writings by Portland author Daniel Skach-Mills. Given my penchant for spiritual/personal growth (what Lee’s mom amusingly calls “cosmic”), this title jumped right off the [...]

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The Joke’s on Us

Well, I’m happy to report that we’ve survived the 3,216 miles it took us to get from my parents’ house in Willis, Texas to Banks, Oregon. How it took us almost the same distance to get here as it does from New York to California is anyone’s guess. I do know it felt like we [...]

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