A week or so ago, awesome blogger and novelist Christi Corbett gave me an award: Thanks, Christi! The idea of the award is twofold: 1. You are supposed to pass it on to several other bloggers, and, 2. You are supposed to write an answer to the question, if you could go back and change […]
Even though I got my undergrad at the University of Oregon and I'm a proud alumni, we don't have season tickets to football. Luckily, I know people who do, and since this week's game fell on a Thursday and most people aren't self-employed like me, many of those people who have tickets couldn't make the […]
For this week's inspiration, I feature…my daughter, the talented photographer Ariane Hopman. She's in the middle of about a million life transitions, including a new marriage, a new home that will soon be a mini-urban farm, and a fabulous new job. But in her spare time, she's starting a photo business. Annie graduated from the […]
Next week I'm going to a place in southeastern Oregon called Frenchglen. It is little more than a wide spot in the road, with a hotel, general store, school, and a few houses, as I understand it. I wouldn't know for sure, because I've never been there. But I'm greatly enamored of the idea of […]
I'm starting a new feature today. It is "Inspiration Friday," and because I am a right-brained creature through and through and I will get bored if I allow myself only one thing to post about, it is going to be a mish-mash. A mish-mash with a common theme–something that has inspired me the previous week. […]
