Recovering Californian

Actualizing narrative since 2009, or 1975 depending on how you look at it.

If Crissy Can Do It

So, there’s Crissy with not one but two children and one of them is brand new and all bean-like and she’s blogging. I’ve got one kid and that seems like paradise to me at this point because not a day passes that I don’t want to remove my ovaries with a rusty spoon to avoid [...]

I’m Allergic to More Stuff!

Yesterday the Melissa Lion family went for a bike ride. And Steve was like, “Let’s ride to Hawthorne!” And I was like, “Wow! No!” And he kept asking and I kept saying no because if we were going to ride to Hawthorne from St. John’s we might as well have ridden to California. IT’S THAT [...]

Sunday Parkways

Archie and I are doing Sunday Parkways today. If you don’t follow the link, six miles of streets in N Portland are closed to cars for the day and the streets are filled with bicyclists. It’s part of a convention in town to discuss carfree cities.
If I can bike someplace within an hour, I do [...]