I am very actively involved in a theater/performing arts/cultural nonprofit, the Portland Revels. Each spring we have an event, Flourish, with the purpose of connecting with our friends and supporters and of course, raising money. This year’s restrictions of course have put a crimp in in-person gatherings and we have been pivoting and shifting to […]
The power of green The wall apparently took some getting over. And I’m not sure I’m quite over there yet but I am being propelled by the power of green. The color green. The greening earth. The green smell of my tomato plants and (of course) cut grass. I’m pretty well convinced of the […]
Hitting a wall Or maybe its just a fence. Or maybe that it’s fatigue from the getting up at 5:20 am yesterday to dance up the sun on Mayday – a quaint custom I’ve been doing for fifteen years or more with my dance team. Alas, without my team this year. Or maybe too many […]
I’m experimenting, truly, with media so I thought it might be fine to include a video in this post which is a bit about Mayday. May 1, Mayday, has been celebrated as some kind of holiday in many cultures and traditions, perhaps most especially in the British Isles. Given the historical US ties to […]
Why DIY? If you’re used to going out, whether to hike, eat, visit friends or go dancing or drinking, this time of social/physical distancing might have have given you more time (or at least a different kind of time) to do things you’ve always ‘meant to do’ like garden or bake bread or make things. […]
That’s 2/3 of the way through NAPOWRIMO and my writers group has been busy. About ten of us swapping poems and prompts. I also encouraged three other friends to take on the NAPOWrIMO challenge of a poem a day. I feel like a mother hen to use an old expression, clucking over what my friends […]
Well, this being Oregon, it seems like every other person we know makes wine, beer, mead, kombucha, etc. Or is somehow engaged in dishing up yummy beverages. Our friend Robert, whose drink was featured a few weeks ago, loves to experiment but he’s not the only one. In any case, in honor of this quite […]
I know, the saying is backward (out of the frying pan into the fire…. or things going from bad to worse). But I couldn’t help playing with it because this is a great time to back up, get that fallen hamburger out of the fire, give it a quick sear and eat it. Don’t let […]
As promised, vegetables. Part 1 I’ve been putting off this post just a little bit because if any of you are living somewhere other than Zone 8 or higher (average last day of frost April 20) you still have a chance of frost (Zone 5, Chicagoland, has May 6 as average last day of frost). […]
I hope you are enjoying this array of topics. I promise a post on vegetable gardening is coming up. We are a third of the way through the month of April. And a third of a the way through National/Global poetry writing month. There may be more people than usual trying their hands at […]
Rooms in Bloom 