The traditional running-of-the-shoppers that takes place each December continues, but in Portland's retail arenas, the atmosphere is quieter than, say, downtown Seattle. One might assume this is due...
Christmas Day my partner and I decided to pass on various family Christmas doings and attend the Church of Nature. We left in the morning and drove north on a nearly empty I-5 up to the Sedro-Woolley...
Without getting bogged down in marital details or my own spiritual evolution, let's just say that I have experienced, first-hand, pretty much any holiday observance you could take up in the month of...