Quoth Og Mandino

“Each struggle, each defeat sharpens your skills and strengthens your courage and your endurance.”

My Authorial Debut

“The Native Star” Trailer

Recent Entries

NYC is awesome

So I’m sitting here in Union Square Park, taking advantage the free wifi that the Syfy channel is generously sponsoring. I’m laboring under the illusion that someone sitting in a park typing on a laptop is far less pretentious than someone sitting in a coffee shop typing on a laptop. And also, I don’t [...]

Summer's here!

Yes, when she’s not parading hungry friends through the house, coming in to my office with up-to-the-minute alerts on the life-and-death urgency attendant upon me enrolling her in breakdancing lessons (“EVERYONE knows how to breakdance, mom! EVERYONE BUT ME!”), or coming up with meticulously hand-drawn, color-coded, shockingly usurious price-tables meant to be applied to [...]

How to Train Your Dragon

Daughter and I had a rather slow, low-energy day today. We finally got to see “How to Train Your Dragon.” Liked it well enough, but I had issues.

1) The movie’s theme was that dragons are people too, and that all humans have to do to live in harmony with these sweet, kitten-like critters, [...]

My boyfriend needs a new home

Here’s the deal. It’s time to find my boyfriend “Felix” a new forever home. As you recall, I found Felix in a box near the Clackamas River—scratched up, three-quarters starved and massively flea-ridden. I took him to the vet, got him de-flea-ed, and have been feeding him copiously for the past few months. Now [...]

Oregon City Farmer’s Market

So yesterday daughter and I hiked down the hill to the opening of the Wednesday Farmer’s Market in downtown Oregon City. The Saturday Farmer’s Market has been going for quite some time now, but I’ve only made it out there once or twice because it’s not really on my route and driving to a [...]