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And now we’ll return to our semi-regularly scheduled programming

May 22nd, 2009 · 5 Comments

I know, I know. It’s been nearly a month since my last confession blog post. In the last week, I’ve received a nagging email and a nagging Facebook wall post from two of my most dedicated readers alerting me to this sin.
But, you see, the sun has started to come out. It’s that time of [...]

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Behold: this is how I drive traffic to other blog posts I’ve written elsewhere on the Internet

July 11th, 2008 · 4 Comments

Live-blogged my first conference for my job this week—the Southwest Washington Sustainability Conference. I didn’t draw the straw to cover RFK Jr.’s speech, but nonetheless felt super cool with my press pass and everything. Sat in the back and typed as the speakers were doing their ‘thang. The result was not exactly a “live blog” [...]

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Where are you?

November 15th, 2006 · 14 Comments

One of my favorite teachers once gave my class the task of answering that question.
Where are you? It was, maybe, a two-page assignment that I distinctly remember writing by hand. I don’t have the essay anymore but I recall saying something silly like “I am where I imagine myself to be” and went on about [...]

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One year later

September 25th, 2006 · 18 Comments

It’s official, folks. When Asa’s alarm went off at five-fucking-thirty this morning, it finally hit me: I’ve lived in Portland for an entire year.
I moved here in late September last year, just before Asa began his diesel mechanics classes that start every morning at the very unreasonable hour of seven o’clock. His alarm clock—a mechanized [...]

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Is there a point to this post?

March 30th, 2006 · 22 Comments

My picture’s in the paper, alongside this article in which I accidentally use the word “sprung” in two consecutive sentences. It is an absolute mystery to me how I can read and re-read the same freaking story 13,475 times while it’s still on my computer and not notice such a glitch, and then the second [...]

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