Continue Reading Tigard Surprise: The Heritage Trail When seeking beauty under my nose (my goal this week,) the city of Tigard is not necessarily the first place that comes…
Continue Reading Thistles and Neuronal Networks I intend to keep my promise to write this week about nothing but uplifting, constructive or beautiful things that I find right…
Continue Reading Beaverton Joy: La Strada dei Pastelli We could practically be drowning in sadness, between the Haitian earthquake, the heartbreaking plight and betrayal of the Afghan people, the disregard…
Continue Reading Giant Trolls Somehow the trolls escaped their storage in one of the boxes full of the boys’ childhood toys. They emerged in February, popped…
Continue Reading Giant Contrasts I had hoped to post something refreshing today, a day where we yet again reach temperatures above the 100 degree mark. Maybe…
Continue Reading Giant Troubles Some nights ago at the dinner table we once again joked about how utterly different we are from each other (you can…
Continue Reading Fables and Fairytales Today’s cinematic adventures hail from West Africa and South Korea, respectively. One is a film, the other an extended TV series (the…
Continue Reading Satire and Drama In lieu of actual travel I have lately been gorging on foreign films set in different continents. A slice of Africa, bits…
Continue Reading Out of (the) wood(s)? You might remember that I don’t watch sports. Not even the Olympics. I, like everyone else, however, cannot escape images that appear…
Continue Reading Walking These days I am often forced to compromise. I can, for example, walk with my heavy camera for a few kilometers in…
