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 …
One of the biggest reasons I ever even entertain the notion of wanting a car is to go on adventures — to get further away from Portland in a weekend, say, than I can using only my bike or my bike + transit. Or sometimes I think a car would …
Sometimes on your bike, you find just the right route and all is well. And sometimes, you end up on a controlled access freeway with semi trucks whizzing past at 80mph. (oops!!) I just found this picture again today while I was looking for something else. It’s from my fall …
