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PortlandiaQuill: January 2008
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RECENT THOUGHTS FROM A PORTLAND EX-PAT IN IDAHO. Thursday, January 17, 2008. Writing family narrative is more difficult than it seems. At first blush, writing family narrative should be easy. It's confessional, it's personal, and it's a topic that's close to your heart. What to tell and what not to tell, how long to keep it and how short to make it all end up cramping things a little. Especially when it's written for a class. But it feels a little like secondary school, you know? On a pessimistic note, i...
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PortlandiaQuill: Blurg.
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RECENT THOUGHTS FROM A PORTLAND EX-PAT IN IDAHO. Thursday, June 3, 2010. As most of you well know, I was recently kidnapped in London and held hostage for an e-mail ransom. The result of this adventure was the unfortunate deletion of my old e-mail addresses, ariel.holman@gmail.com, the one tied to this blog, being one of them. We have many wonderful things to share - including a marching marmot, and pictures and stories from our trip out to Grand Teton National Park. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).
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PortlandiaQuill: July 2008
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RECENT THOUGHTS FROM A PORTLAND EX-PAT IN IDAHO. Thursday, July 31, 2008. The weather, among other things. In the Pacific Northwest, the air feels thick. It's thick with moisture and damp air. It's wet and heavy and it smells clean. Like the atmosphere just after a good rain: even though it's dense with moisture it feels healthy. But so far that's been about it. You certainly don't get the surprise and variety I'm used to from Seattle and Portland. In the meantime, I'm trying to focus on the positive: I'...
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PortlandiaQuill: August 2008
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RECENT THOUGHTS FROM A PORTLAND EX-PAT IN IDAHO. Wednesday, August 27, 2008. Because we've had a couple phone calls. No, we were not anywhere near the fire that ripped through the SE Boise suburbs. On Monday night. It was pretty awful, though. Nine houses were destroyed, and another one was damaged. A very popular linguistics and English professor at Boise State University was killed. In other news, I found out today that I type 77 words per minute! I'm impressed with myself. Goooooo TEAM! Other, other n...
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PortlandiaQuill: September 2008
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RECENT THOUGHTS FROM A PORTLAND EX-PAT IN IDAHO. Monday, September 8, 2008. Hot, but not like burn-down-the-neighborhood hot. So, if you're following things on Twitter, you know that I made some outstanding brownies yesterday. I've been on a roll when it comes to cooking this weekend, in fact. But as good as everything has been, these brownies take the cake. I got the recipe from my new favorite cooking blog, SmittenKitchen. What makes them so good? The slow, subtle chipotle burn. Then, last night, knowi...
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PortlandiaQuill: Little things.
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RECENT THOUGHTS FROM A PORTLAND EX-PAT IN IDAHO. Tuesday, December 8, 2009. We squabbled a little last night over whether it was a good idea for Charlie to ride his bike to work tomorrow (a couple inches of snow on the ground, slick roads, cold temps). I made him promise to ride his bike on the sidewalk if he did (no shoulder or room for cars to manuver around him was my thinking.). He reluctantly agreed. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Follow me on Twitter. Bloom: The story of a house.
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PortlandiaQuill: Morning.
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RECENT THOUGHTS FROM A PORTLAND EX-PAT IN IDAHO. Wednesday, December 9, 2009. Last night was bell-clear. The cold settles everything out of the air. Its as if the night holds its breath, waiting for morning. Dawn rises a soft pink. Small clouds hang low, puffs of frozen breath snagged in the trees. We wake slowly, the sun itself finding it difficult to rise this crisp, cold morning. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Follow me on Twitter. Spudward (Ariel and Charlie's blog about moving to ID).
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PortlandiaQuill: November 2007
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RECENT THOUGHTS FROM A PORTLAND EX-PAT IN IDAHO. Wednesday, November 28, 2007. Variations on clouds: 2. More late afternoon clouds over Portland. Links to this post. Monday, November 19, 2007. Two perspectives on clouds. Links to this post. Monday, November 12, 2007. Looking back, and starting to look forward. So I started volunteering. First it was with a community college. They gave me a student who wasn't enrolled in any classes and said, "Go! A short 2 months ago, I started volunteering with a differ...
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PortlandiaQuill: June 2010
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RECENT THOUGHTS FROM A PORTLAND EX-PAT IN IDAHO. Thursday, June 3, 2010. As most of you well know, I was recently kidnapped in London and held hostage for an e-mail ransom. The result of this adventure was the unfortunate deletion of my old e-mail addresses, ariel.holman@gmail.com, the one tied to this blog, being one of them. We have many wonderful things to share - including a marching marmot, and pictures and stories from our trip out to Grand Teton National Park. Links to this post.
