I’m sure there are other corn mazes and straw mazes around the country, indeed, around the world, but I’m here to tell you that Portland has an amazing corn maze culture that I don’t remember being here a few years
A Wonderful Night at the Beach

Recently, Dinah Dog and I had the opportunity to spend the night at a house on the beach in Seaside, Oregon. It was a beautiful little refurbished cottage originally built in the 1950s that has been magnificently updated to include
Tricia Didn’t Win. Bummer. :(
As promised in my last blog post, I’m letting you all know that, as luck would have it, Tricia didn’t win the brand new sewing machine grand prize at the quilt shop hop the two of us recently completed. In
A’Quilting We Will Go! Wait. Was That a Winged Dragon We Just Passed?
I love to sew. I love everything about sewing – the fabrics, the threads, the little tools like the seam ripper and seam gauge, the machine and all its stitches, the ironing, the scissors. I’ve been sewing stuff together since
Chickens Chickens Everywhere!
For the past couple of years, Vancouver, Washington has provided a tour of the residences of some of its local downtown inhabitants. No, it’s not another exposé on the homeless, or another tour of the up and coming areas that
Mary S. Young – a Park Near Portland
As one travels around the Portland Metro area here in Oregon and Southwest Washington, it quickly becomes apparent that people in this area love their parks. There are parks everywhere – small neighborhood parks, larger community parks, and big urban