One of my favorite things to do Saturdays is to walk to the Farmer's Market in Portland to sample hazelnuts and pear slices. You'll find the freshest salmon and the hottest peppers. On weekends I haunt Powell's bookstore and float through the stacks.
I've ridden my mountain bike up the Appalachian trial and down Haleakala in Maui, and like to bike Forest Park. Once I flipped my bike and got a blue bruise on my hip. Someday I may tattoo the hip with the semblance of a small bike. My kids think I should get a tattoo, but then, they're much cooler than I am. Megan graduated from Mills College in Oakland and plans to study English literature at graduate school. Rachel graduated from Occidental College and is a playwright who has already had her work performed. When the kids were little my mother and aunt made their Indian regalia and we'd go to Pow Wows, where the girls learned to fancy dance. We've visited the rez in Oklahoma for the summer dances, where all the families gather. We're enrolled with the Osage Nation.
I've traveled from Mount Damavand in Persia to the El Yunque rain forest in Puerto Rico, and call the Northwest home. I love the beaches and the forests, the berry farms, and sidewalk vendors. I'm blessed with warm friendships, terrific students, and swell kids. If you need to find me I'm the one at Ken's Bakery dipping a croissant in a cup of coffee and grading a paper.
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