Captain Daddy and I almost didn’t get married based on vastly differing spiritual beliefs. All of that now seems like the sort of completely irrelevant nonsense that young people fixate on when making monumental decisions like who to spend the rest of their lives with, unaware that it’s actually anxiety, boredom and the laundry that…
“Nothing happens, and nothing happens, and then everything happens.” –Fay Weldon
Publishing May 17 is my travel guidebook, Day Trips From Portland, from Globe Pequot Press. Rediscover the simple pleasures of a day trip with Day Trips from Portland, OR. This guide is packed with hundreds of exciting things for locals and vacationers to do, see, and discover within a two-hour drive of the Portland metro area.…
A Bird’s Eye View is in the Travel Oregon online magazine.
greatly assure your Bagpipes and Brotherhood on St. Patrick’s Day is on the Travel Oregon Blog
I won the Oregon Quarterly Northwest Perspectives essay contest. I had to write that twice because I still can’t quite believe it. Yesterday I received a very unusual phone call, especially in these days of ubiquitous electronic conversation. “This is my favorite phone call of the year,” said the magazine’s editor. “You won the essay…
Listening to Lady Gaga with the kids is super fun until you drop the little one off at preschool one day and she belts out to her teacher: “Let’s have some fun, this beat is sick. I want to take a ride on your disco stick.” If you are feeling beaten down by grown-up life,…
“All marriages are happy. It’s the living together afterward that causes all the trouble.” –Raymond Hull “One study found that simply having a husband creates an extra seven hours of housework a week.” –Newsweek, “I Don’t: The Case Against Marriage.” June 21, 2010. Overheard at a 50th wedding anniversary party. A guest: “How did you…
Remember when you thought your parents had done the dirty deed twice—once to make you and once to make your sister? And then at some point the illusion shatters. Too bad it’s usually far before the whole concept can be, ahem, appreciated.