Donating blood is one of those things that I don’t particularly enjoy, but do think is important: since I’m lucky enough to be a physically fit, able, and healthy human being with ample ability to replenish my own blood supply, it seems only right that I share. No, I don’t …
This is just a random fluff observation. But the other day — a warm, perfect, neverending evening that feels like you can just swim through it forever, the best kind of Northwest evening — I put on a short and summery dress to go to an event. And then I …
Yesterday was a momentous day. Not only would it have been my dad’s birthday if he were still alive, but it’s also the first birthday of my job in Gresham. That’s right! I’ve been biking out to Gresham for exactly a year and a day now: happy birthday, job! (to …
I’m sitting on our porch, watching two different sets of crows build two different nests in close-but-respectably-separate conifers. All around, I hear other, different birds — the bushtit pair that’s building a nest that I haven’t yet been able to find, the two chickadees similarly settling somewhere close, a bunch …
