The Chinese Year of the Water Dragon comes around once every 60 years and I was born smack dab in the middle of the last one. I hope you enjoy this pictorial look back on the past twelve months of
A Day’s Adventure
It was a dark and rainy Wednesday. What to do, what to do? Looking for fun and adventure… but it’s raining! Really? It’s the Pacific Northwest and if I was looking for a dry, sunny day, I’d be sitting on
Happy New Year!
2012 is quickly drawing to a close here on the left coast of the United States. Instead of reflecting on all the changes and events that happened in my journey this year, I’d like to wish us all a very
Portland is A-mazing :)
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’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
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
Life’s a Beach!
I love the beach. I love everything about the beach. I love the sand, the salt water, the waves, the sun, the shells, the sand crabs, the rocks, the crash of the water as it hits the shore – I