Portland, Oregon

Chanel and Trish bought a house in Portland, Oregon earlier this week, or so my mom reports. She just called, very excited, because she has all-but-committed to buy a 2BR condominium in downtown Portland. The building hasn’t been completed yet, and her apartment won’t be finished until May 2007. She’ll…

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Beginnings of my blog

I’m not sure how long I will keep this up. Or if I even will beyond this month. But I have thought often of the long littleness of life in the months after my father died. And I thought maybe my children–if I ever have any–would like to hear of…

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Feeling Hurt

I have been exchanging some rather heated e-mail messages with a member of my family. (E-mail is really the best way for us to communicated, since my apartment has no phone, and to make a collect call on a pay phone via AT&T, I have to go all the way…

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