The NY Times on Portland's Alberta St.
http://travel.nytimes.com/2009/02/01/travel/01surfacing.html?ref=travel

I am training to run a marathon.
I am training to run a marathon.

Some things you have to say more than once if you're going to start believing them.

Actually, I think it's doable, and it's not for another eight months. So right now I'm sort of pre-training.

I'm excited and I think this is going to teach me a lot about myself.

Inauguration Pics!!!

My fingers weren't a very good gauge of the heat. They were red and burning hot -- that heat that feels cold -- in the stream of the shower ( Read more... )

Landings make me cry. Usually, it's coming into Portland in the rain and smelling that mossy air. After a long trip away, it makes me tear up. But this time, it was landing in DC that did me in. Except, it wasn't a "oh finally, yes here I am" kind of cry, but a "what am I doing?" cry ( Read more... )

There's still some snow on the neighbors' rooftops. The twilight turns it gray, then bright white as I pull the sand from my eyes. Winter is a cold nose and a cloud of breath, dissipating, in front of silhouetted tree branches, naked against the brooding sky.

I guess it's good that it makes me laugh, now ( Read more... )

I read parts of Obama's The Audacity of Hope before the heavy-duty campaigning began, and one thing I really liked about it is that Obama focused on what's good for the whole country, left and right together. He spent a lot of time trying to take into account everyone's individual values. Even president Bush's - a person he really disagrees with ( Read more... )

Check out this French newspaper on American election day... it's absolutely plastered with stories covering the American election: http://www.lemonde.fr

The headline reads: "The democrats hope... but don't dare believe it."

Graffiti portraits of Obama: Leave a comment  1 

I'm so sick of treading water.

I want to swim or stand on dry land.