I’m assuming that most of you who read my journal are outside the Portland area, but just in case, I wanted to share this: Humane Society Needs You (to adopt a cat) Short version: the shelter’s full, they don’t kill
quote for the day
A revisit, for this Veterans/Armistice/Remembrance Day: (yes, I know it was actually yesterday, but there are still plenty of observances going on today, so …) “Those heroes that shed their blood and lost their lives. You are now living in
quote for the day
“We have cats the way most people have mice.” –James Thurber I’ve always loved cats, and when Joe and I moved to a place where we could have a cat, a decade ago when we came to Oregon, we had
quote for the day
“People do not deserve good writing, they are so pleased with bad.” –Ralph Waldo Emerson Seems like this quote, which illustrates one of the things the union is up against, is about as close as I can get, for the
An Open Letter to Dianne Feinstein
In the spring of 1980, for an exercise in my eighth grade class, we were asked to name our heroes. In front of my whole class, I named you. I didn’t live in San Francisco. I never had. But even