I’m assuming that most of you who read my journal are outside the Portland area, but just in case, I wanted to share this: Humane Society Needs You (to adopt a cat) Short version: the shelter’s full, they don’t kill
quote for the day
A revisit, for this Veterans/Armistice/Remembrance Day: (yes, I know it was actually yesterday, but there are still plenty of observances going on today, so …) “Those heroes that shed their blood and lost their lives. You are now living in
quote for the day
“We have cats the way most people have mice.” –James Thurber I’ve always loved cats, and when Joe and I moved to a place where we could have a cat, a decade ago when we came to Oregon, we had
quote for the day
“People do not deserve good writing, they are so pleased with bad.” –Ralph Waldo Emerson Seems like this quote, which illustrates one of the things the union is up against, is about as close as I can get, for the
An Open Letter to Dianne Feinstein
In the spring of 1980, for an exercise in my eighth grade class, we were asked to name our heroes. In front of my whole class, I named you. I didn’t live in San Francisco. I never had. But even
Portland feels a little bigger today
I suspect the Portland Art Museum will be a bit more crowded for a while, beginning mid November, as people come to see something really special: A Van Gogh Arrives in Portland(from the OregonLive website) This will be the first
You Tell ‘Em, George
I’m not exactly a fan of George Will; the vast majority of the time his political views are widely divergent from mine. But you know the saying about even a broken clock being right twice a day? I think this
Some Folks Just Don’t Get It
Really, it’s not what you think: ‘Naked Lunch’ May Be Banned in Maine (from the SFGate website) It has absolutely nothing to do with William Burroughs, although I can’t help but think he’d have been very amused by the whole
quote for the day, and an invitation
“If you dig it, do it. And if you really dig it, do it twice.” –Jim Croce ========== Somewhere around seven years ago, give or take, I was really impressed with the idea of message boards. Several of my friends
How I Spent My Summer Vacation, Part Two
Joe and I set out on what was to be the longest trip of my sabbatical — ten days — on Monday, June 25. We had decided to make the trip to the Bay Area in two hops each way.