I returned home tonight after spending this past weekend in Portland visiting the lovely and talented Hans.

See? She is lovely! And talented! And savvy with the simultaneous balloon-holding and driving skills, as she is so clearly demonstrating in that picture. Sidenote: Moments after the taking of this paticular photograph I would be crowned [...]

The past two days I have been wheezing. Full-on, raspy, I sound like some sort of broken musical instrument is lodged in my chest type of wheezing. Wheezing most surely because the past two days I have also been running.
Better stated, I have recently started running after being on a sort of athletic hiatus for [...]

3, 1, 1: deer, fox, rubber wader boot, squashed and adorning various sides of I-90.
24: total hours spent in Seattle.
17: total waking hours spent in Seattle.
9: total hours spent playing Xena, Road Warrior, driving to and from Seattle.
2: adorable, excitable, and big with the licking, pitpull pups, recently purchased by Mr. J.R. Ward (aka Mr. [...]

A recounting of the past three move-infested days:
Saturday: 8am-3:15pm: Work. Activities include reading, consuming Otter Pops, reading, making a RR run for chicken wraps and strawberry lemonade, reading, answering the phone and conversating with the meager five percent of our clientele base who actually call on Saturdays.
3:15-3:30pm: Drive to parents’ house to commence with [...]

I started laughing last night when, upon returning home from work, I witnessed our (two junior high aged) neighbor girls cutting a rug on the front lawn, gyrating and creating dance sequences to Jock Jams. Gyrating and dancing, that is, until the little neighbor boys came by on their bikes, and suddenly the girls remembered [...]

* I could outfit an entire city block’s inhabitants for at least a few weeks with the amount of t-shirts I’ve accumulated over a decade of basketball tournaments, camps, and track invites.
* Notes from my Senior A.P. Biology class in high school, including one diagram of the cardiovascular system with right and [...]

I talk a good game. But really driving in the snow doesn’t seem to cause me the stress that it seems to cause other snow-dwelling citizens of Spokane. Or perhaps better stated, it doesn’t cause me the stress that perhaps it should.
What led me to this realization, you ask?
Last night I was driving to The [...]

Today I took my car back to the dealership from whence it came, for a few hours of quality time with the mechanics there employed. The mission: Replace the brakes and rotors. Again.
Today marked the second time in a month and a half I was able to drive the wonderfully scenic route from Spokane to [...]

I returned from an atypical and yet highly enjoyable trip to the Portland/Salem/Grant’s Pass/Vancouver area Monday. And then I promptly fell asleep. Ok, so that would have been the ideal situation, but as I technically drove from Portland back to Spokane and straight to work, I was actually forced to remain semi-conscious for the majority [...]

The title of this post might have originally suggested the metaphoric. I apologize for any misleading, while at the same time acknowledging it was most likely intentional. While it does remain fact and not fiction that I do typically delight in the suggestive and the allegorical, this post is nothing but literal.
I like driving fast. [...]