Wednesday night, November 5th, Chris and I walked giddily up to the Arlene Schnitzer Auditorium in downtown Portland to find our seats for a show that I had been admittedly looking forward to ever since the first time I heard Ray LaMontagne’s voice crooning out of my car stereo, years ago when I still lived [...]

I adore Fall. It’s long been my favorite time of year.
I look forward to the symbolic and physical changes arriving with the first gust of chilly air and the last day of the longest light. I love the fact that I get to order my chai hot and buy copious amounts of scarves, and reasons [...]

Saturday night I joined the ranks of the thousands of people in Portland who were no doubt having trouble sleeping. Not because I was about to embark on the 26.2 mile road race through various parts of the city the following morning, but because my little sister was.
Babycarrot sister had been training for a marathon [...]

On Friday night Chris and I trekked to Salem to watch Ryan Adams and The Cardinals rock The Elsinore harder than the grandmothers working the ticket booths were probably ready for. The minute the show started I started silently hoping the kind old lady who escorted us to our seats had forgotten to wear her [...]