Sitting around with a broken leg makes be bored. I’m reading like crazy; but I can’t read 16 hours a day. So, I thought I’d try my hand at updating the header photo(s) that appear in my blog. Usually for each non-book report post I crop one of the topic photos into the constrained 9.4 x… Continue reading Blog tweak
Month: October 2015
Book Report – All the Little Live Things by Wallace Stegner
All the Little Live Things by Wallace Stegner My rating: 3 of 5 stars Although written before The Spectator Bird, I think the events in this novel take place after that one. We see Joseph Allston and his wife Ruth living in the hills south of San Francisco where they retired after the death of… Continue reading Book Report – All the Little Live Things by Wallace Stegner
Portland Sunday Parkways – Southeast
September 27, 2015 One Sunday a month in the late spring through early fall the Portland Bureau of Transportation holds Portland Parkways events to facilitate people getting out and about in our neighborhoods. Here is the map of this year’s events taken from the web site linked above. We had never heard of these events… Continue reading Portland Sunday Parkways – Southeast
Portland 4T Loop
September 22, 2015 This was one of the last two big walks Carla and I went on before I broke my leg putting me out of commission until mid November. Portland has a wealth of mass transit options and is blessed with many hiking trails especially in the west hills. Put those two together and… Continue reading Portland 4T Loop
Book Report – Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout
Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout My rating: 4 of 5 stars [NOTE: The final few paragraphs may give away more than you want to know before reading] Officiant: …for better and for worse; in sickness and in health…? Bride/Groom: I do Me (to myself): You have no idea My wife and I are in that… Continue reading Book Report – Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout
