I love the slow, free-form days of late summer….
PSU FARMERS MARKET AND MEETING SEAHAWKS
PORTLAND FLEA + FOOD
I don’t know why it’s taken me a couple months to make it here, but I finally got there….
FRIENDS, FELLOWSHIP AND FOCACCIA
In the four days since I’ve been back, it’s been wall-to-wall catching up with friends, and happily being on the receiving end of endless generosity….
IN PRAISE OF PORCHES AND DROP-OFFS
When I first moved here thirteen years ago, I remember being bowled over by all the big front porches I spied everywhere.…
PORTLAND’S FIRST FOOD HALL: PINE STREET MARKET
SHOWING OUT-OF-TOWNERS SOME PORTLAND LOVE
Our Japanese exchange students at Lewis and Clark are wrapping up their year abroad, and my friend Mary Ann and I’ve been trying to get to things on their bucket lists….
PORTLAND LOVES ECCENTRICS
I moved to Portland a dozen years ago and one of the my most vivid memories of that first week was spying a certain bumper sticker: “Keep Portland Weird.”…
HOLIDAY MOVIE — STAR WARS AT THE ROSEWAY THEATER
For my friends and regular readers of Portland Sampler, this fact will come as no surprise….