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I had a long day of travel on Friday, and at the end of it I was back home in Portland. But being gone for a week means there's still too much to do once you get back to home base. Once my parents picked me up from
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Instagram binge posting. It's a real thing. It's a real problem. It's something I've unfollowed people for. You know when you follow hundreds or thousands of folks and suddenly 10 images in a row are all from the same person? Amazing architecture.
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As I sat on my living room floor rubbing leather conditioner into my boots the smell of shoe-polish took me back about 30 years. Sitting on the floor of my parents living room floor, next to the fireplace, newspaper spread out in front of me as I polished my dad&
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"You don't know how lucky you are that you don't have a real job." Excuse me? What? Huh? I never know exactly how to respond to comments like that because, fuck you. I get that the speaker is trying to be nice. Is trying
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When I went back to work last year for the first time in 10 years I had a moment of panic and excitement over a new work wardrobe. It was more like a total freakout. And actually preceded the actual getting of the job. It was while I was starting
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Sometimes titles are awfully important to people. They like a designation. A way to pigeon-hole you. To identify what or who you are. But sometimes there just isn't an easy answer and we wind up with a long bunch of loosely associated words strung together with a greater
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I was happily sitting using an internet connection that was not my own so I could work while waiting for my daughter to get out of class. Best of both worlds kind of moment. I'm here waiting when she gets finished and I'm using my time
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I haven't had cheese puffs in years. Excuse me. Cheese Puffs. They're a proper noun, right? Anyway, Cheese Puffs... I try not to eat them because they have absolutely no redeeming value. Except the cheesy puffy goodness I recall from my youth. The savory fluffy cheesy
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I've had my iPhone for how many years now? Many. Let's go with that. I wasn't one of those that stood in line for hours waiting to pay far too much to be an early adopter. I wrote blog posts siting the insanity of
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I'm about to bash bicyclists in the city of Portland. Yes. Even with the "bikes are sexy" photo over there (they are). Even though I love that Portland is a bike friendly city. Even though I adore that we have a city you can get around
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Of all the sentiments humans have learned to express through words, love and longing may be the ones to which the most time has been committed. Love notes. Songs. Poems. Tales of woe are often the flip side of a tale of love. And then you have your chick flicks.
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I don't know how old I was when I realized that my dad's name is Bob because even after I knew that to be true there seemed no reason to say it. To all the world he was Bob. Well, there were a few people who