What I learned about Portland Timbers fans from the only sports story I’ll likely read all year: “stadium vendors hawk barbecued-tofu sandwiches, spinach salads and chocolate-covered bacon.” "The Timbers are all about helping out their […]
between 1988 and 2008, the fraction of middle-aged men and women ages forty to fifty-nine receiving SSDI benefits rose by 45 percent among males (from 3.9 to 5.6 percent) and 159 percent among females (1.9 […]
Normally when Carrie Bradshaw, all poufs and ringlets, shows up on my TV, I leap for the remote. But when Sexo en Nueva York came on the small screen at my rental apartment in San […]
Moms! Moms are special people with special wants and needs. During my one work day back from vacation I found a treasure trove of press releases about mom-related polls and surveys just waiting for me […]
Her brother who doesn’t communicate with the rest of the family despite also living in Portland, has become a school bus driver. His twentysomething daughter, my cousin, who I presume still lives at home, is […]
I imagine that others have mentioned this by now (I’ve been too busy to keep up with blog reading this past week) but I can’t fathom why the opening paragraph of The New York Times […]
Too Early, Too Hot Not only was I born with a different internal clock than the rest of my family who seems to enjoy rising at 6am or earlier for no discernable reason, my body […]
Right around the same time I found “springfield oregon how to tell if a beggar really needs money” in my search log, I spoke to my sister (who is now house-hunting in Eugene, but not […]
I like those green tiles. I have never read Mildred Pierce, though I’ve always admired the paperback with the cover by Robert Jonas, one of my favorite last-century illustrators. He did another version, as well. […]
On the one hand, it’s nice to see a style that’s not wildly clingy or ass-baringly short, but how easy is it to pull of the inescapable (well, only if you crack open a fashion […]