Dammit Hallmark
I am not sappy. I am not a sentimentalist. I never have been. I’ve never cared for soft, easy listening “love” type songs. I’ve never cared for picking up souvenirs wherever I go. The only reasons I have kept my wedding dress, some of my kids’ toys and some of their baby clothes is because … Read more
End of Summer Vacation
Wednesday last week (September 5th, that is) marked the first day of school for Willow. She was extremely excited to be starting. In fact, she had picked out an outfit for the first day of school more than a month ago–or rather, she swapped out ideas for an outfit several times. It seemed like she … Read more
I’m An Unrepentant Pusher
Bwa ha ha ha ha ha ha! I’ve got my daughter hooked on that insidious drug known as hiking. Yesterday, I asked her if she would like to go hiking with me in Forest Park. Well, that isn’t entirely true. I told her I wanted her to come with me because I would love to … Read more
Nature’s Goodness and 7/30-8/2 FFU’s
*FFU=Friday Follow Up Hey, all! It’s that time of the week again to post my Friday Follow Up. For those of you new to this blog, my FFU’s are where I blog about where I’ve been and what I’ve done for the last week in my attempts to fulfill my mileage for this year’s mileage … Read more
I’m Home: The Aftermath
This last week, I’ve been in Canby, Oregon, at Canby Grove Conference Center, where the NW Kidney Kids were holding their annual Kidney Camp. This camp is for pediatric stage four kidney disease patients and their families. What that means is that kids who have kidney disease bad enough that they are close to needing … Read more
June 16 Portland Kidney Walk & Stumptown Movie Makers FFU*
*FFU=Friday Follow Up. Friday follow ups are my weekly Friday posts where I share where I’ve been and what I’ve been up to on my Portland Walkabout. I’ve got a 2000 mile goal I’m trying to achieve by the last day of 2012. Saturday’s Highlights- I’ve already written a post about the Kidney Walk, so … Read more
June 15 Friday Follow Up
Friday Follow Ups are my weekly reviews of where I’ve been and what I’ve been up to on my Portland Walkabout. Whenever I’m able, I try to post pics of my walk, so you readers can see some of the neat stuff I get to check out every day. Friday’s Highlights– Friday was an interesting … Read more
May 31st and Every Parent’s Nightmare
It’s Friday Follow Up time again, where I blather on about where I walked around Portland for the week and post tons of pictures of the interesting, beautiful, and quirky. Basically, whatever catches my eye. On to: Thursday’s Highlights- Thursday, Thursday, Thursday. How can one day be both so good and so bad? The good–Thursday … Read more
Pluggin’ Along
My daughter and I are still working hard on the game design. Today we were working on some very basic illustrations on the cards (as in stick figure type basic–I just want to get the idea across for the play test version, no need to let out the Da Vinci in me–as if I even … Read more
Wonder Drugs: Caffeine and Ibuprofen
Ordinarily when I take my dog with me on walks, he takes barely a passing interest at other dogs that are outside in their yards on the other side of the street. He’ll bark and get excited if a dog is on the same side of the street he is on usually only if that … Read more
