I’m currently enjoying my acceptable state plan-free behavior. Do I know where I’ll be living this Christmas? Nope. For my 27th birthday this summer? Negative. I’m currently wait-listed at a phenomenal graduate program in writing, so I may be, if the cosmos align correctly, moving across the country and going through the biggest change of [...]
Welcome again to the unofficial, unscientific, pseudo-sociological, Fly on the Wall experiment lab! This issue’s study is all about the dubious digit zero and how we say it. Say this number out loud: 503-998-0090. Is it five-o-three or five-zero-three? That’s the basic premise of the under-cover experiment I did on anyone that spoke to me [...]
Holidays always sneak up on you—hell, time sneaks up on you and that’s what I think holidays are a good testament to. You have your regular life that goes along on its regular ways and no matter what drama is, or isn’t, going on to make it interesting, holidays will always be there. I think [...]
Being sick is awful for a myriad of reasons, but I will only focus on one for now: the loss of appetite. I am getting over the w o r s t flu experience of recent memory and the minute the bug settled in my system, my desire for anything (except sleep) disintegrated. I think [...]
I’m about to venture into a topic I don’t normally spend much time or focus on, yet seems to be around me nonetheless—thus is interior design. My mother has been a licensed interior designer and my partner is currently working on developing her interior design sense into a long-term career. It’s not uncommon to fall [...]
Red and Black Cafe 400 SE 12th Ave. Portland, OR., 97202 (503) 231-3899 To say I have memories embedded in restaurants and cafes is a severe understatement. Like a good song, they can sum up a span of time—bringing smells, flavors and an overall aura of feeling into focus. Some coffee shop walls just hold [...]
Surely you do it. When you eat something amazing, isn’t it almost automatic to close your eyes? And if you’re not eating something amazing while you’re reading this to give it a try; just think of a Yoplait commercial. Tell me you don’t picture a woman “indulging” in a cup of low-fat yogurt while closing [...]
I have the bladder of a camel (thanks mom!), so I’m rarely the one demanding the rest stops on a road trips. But they intrigue me nonetheless. These antiquated stations designed purely on the rippling pools of transition, have almost a creepy Twin Peaks-eque feel to them–especially in the Northwest, and especially in the drippy [...]
I write this as I am freshly out of the bath, lying in between layers of just laundered sheets. I’ve gotten really into the spirit of the new year by cleaning. A large portion of yesterday was spent exfoliating my home, pushing the evidence of holiday traffic from one end of the room to the [...]
If you’re one of my three readers and don’t know that I’m in the process of applying to graduate school… well… news flash; I am. It’s a grueling process for a myriad of reasons and this post serves the purpose of celebrating the beginning of the end. As of November 27, 2007, I can now [...]
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