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LATEST ARTICLES ( 72 )

• On Missing

  

  my grandparents, edna coy I realized today that the human activity  I engage in above all others is missing people.  Of course, all my family members are... Read more

  Posted on 26 March 2014 CREATIVITY, SELF EXPRESSION

• On Memorials

  

  Oregon’s Blanch OsbornOver the past few months, I’ve had the opportunity to work with a group of incredible volunteers here in Oregon who are working to build... Read more

  Posted on 03 March 2014 CREATIVITY, SELF EXPRESSION

• The Writing Process Blog Tour: The Recalcitrant Poet Edition

  

  I love Kate Carroll De Gutes.KCDIn fact, I must love her very very much to agree to answer these fool questions in front of God and my country. Read more

  Posted on 27 February 2014 CREATIVITY, SELF EXPRESSION

• Invocation

  

  The CapitolThis morning, I will give the invocation for the Oregon House of Representatives.  I love that.  I am right up there with the lamenters about the lac... Read more

  Posted on 12 February 2014 CREATIVITY, SELF EXPRESSION

• On (not) Drawing

  

  a foxIn the category of first-world complaints, I have a nagging one.  I am grateful that I was born a woman in a decade in a country where I did not have to... Read more

  Posted on 03 February 2014 CREATIVITY, SELF EXPRESSION

• Tales from the Thicket

  

  Gustav Klimt, The Tree of LifeSo last week—along with seemingly everyone else in Southeast Portland—we found ourselves in a battle with lice. Read more

  Posted on 28 January 2014 CREATIVITY, SELF EXPRESSION

• Lunch Illuminated

  

  lunchI’ve never been a fan of lunch.  I think about what I am going to make for dinner all day.  And I love making a hot breakfast, even on a school day.  But... Read more

  Posted on 19 January 2014 CREATIVITY, SELF EXPRESSION

• Well, Welcome to 2014!

  

  Wendy, NYEI’m not even sure how it happened, waking up this morning and finding ourselves well into 2014.  I know it makes me sound like I’m a hundred years old... Read more

  Posted on 13 January 2014 CREATIVITY, SELF EXPRESSION

• Life & Death on Thanksgiving Day

  

  Lord knows we have had a gorgeous November here in the Pacific Northwest.  More sunny days than I can ever remember in this grayest of months. But now, the... Read more

  Posted on 28 November 2013 CREATIVITY, SELF EXPRESSION

• In Praise of the Sippy Cup

  

  The other day, I called David to the front window.  I wanted him to see what I was seeing—a large man—broad shoulders, narrow little hips but an imposing... Read more

  Posted on 16 November 2013 CREATIVITY, SELF EXPRESSION

• A Girl & Her Wheels

  

  my rideI haven’t ridden my bike in weeks.  It’s not that I haven’t wanted to ride my bike, it’s just that our household is dominated by people who can’t drive... Read more

  Posted on 24 October 2013 CREATIVITY, SELF EXPRESSION

• Thursday News Roundup: There’s Hope

  

  President Lincoln’s Cottage at Soldiers HomeI spent the first part of the week in a class-A stew.  Congress can’t pass a budget.  Everyone’s blaming everybody... Read more

  Posted on 03 October 2013 CREATIVITY, SELF EXPRESSION

• Live Like Julia

  

  It’s bound to be a good week.  David’s new book, Charming Gardeners comes out on Tuesday and—that same day—my friend Karen Karbo’s book in the “kick-ass women”... Read more

  Posted on 30 September 2013 CREATIVITY, SELF EXPRESSION

• On Reunification

  

  The Class of 1988Last weekend, my college class celebrated its 25th reunion. I’d had the events marked on my calendar for a year. I registered early. I made a... Read more

  Posted on 26 September 2013 CREATIVITY, SELF EXPRESSION

• (Very Little) Writing About Not Writing

  

  I’ve always taken pride in my own productivity.  I’ve been secretly pleased with myself for juggling a full-time job, a busy family life and still keeping up a... Read more

  Posted on 11 September 2013 CREATIVITY, SELF EXPRESSION

• In Praise of Loose Ends

  

  There’s no two ways about it.  I’m at loose ends.  I’m irritable with my family, distractible at work, and awash in restlessness and disgruntlement. Read more

  Posted on 16 August 2013 CREATIVITY, SELF EXPRESSION

• Kindness: Law of the Sea

  

  I just returned from an eight-day Caribbean cruise with my family.  And when I say my family, I mean my whole family. David and I had the great pleasure of... Read more

  Posted on 31 July 2013 CREATIVITY, SELF EXPRESSION

• Announcing . . . .the Home Ec Writer’s Workshop at the Attic Institute

  

  Home Ec Writer’s WorkshopApparently adulthood is an exercise in feeling torn.  Feeling torn between home and work.  Between keeping up with the laundry and... Read more

  Posted on 08 July 2013 CREATIVITY, SELF EXPRESSION

• The Great Task Remaining – Happy Fourth!

  

  From the mixed bag that is July 4th, here is the poem I wrote last year. It falls right in the middle of the Logger’s Wife series. Let’s celebrate and be... Read more

  Posted on 04 July 2013 CREATIVITY, SELF EXPRESSION

• On Salutation and Valediction

  

  Dickinson LetterThis week, I dashed off a quick note announcing to our elementary school community that we are about to rent out a house just a half-block down... Read more

  Posted on 29 June 2013 CREATIVITY, SELF EXPRESSION