Author Archives: Willow

My new ERF (Exclusive Relationship Friend, as his brother has titled it) who will heretofore be referred to as HMS ARK ROYAL, is participating in a bizarre food consumption challenge, in which he is racing against a coworker to lose … Continue reading →

After a very satisfying New Year’s kiss (okay, continuing series of kisses), I offer you budding lovers the following advice: STOP PLAYING IT COOL!!! Yes, it is good to scout things out, be mellow, get to know a person better, … Continue reading →

You thought ska was dead. I am here to tell you it is alive. You thought funk was dead. I am here to tell you, funk is not dead. You thought hip hop was dead. I am here to say, … Continue reading →

If I were in Ireland I would still be celebrating. Over there the 26th is known as St Steven’s Day, and there is lots of eating and drinking and staying home from work. It’s called Boxing Day in England. Here … Continue reading →

Whenever I visit Silver Plume I think to myself, “Does this place really EXIST?!?” and, “Did I actually spend a good bit of my childhood HERE?!?” It’s absolutely amazing. Silver Plume is an old mining town about ten miles from … Continue reading →

My flight landed, and by the time I turned on my phone there were already two messages from my mom telling me to meet her at the fountain. Which is where I always meet her. The airport was full of … Continue reading →

8:16pm I have resigned myself to the fact that no one is going to pull up to my curb with pizza in hand to whisk me away to a hot party with dancing and booze and movies and sleeping over. … Continue reading →

Well, it is snowing in PDX. Very pretty, very icy. Here is a photo Jona took: I will continue to live blog this event until I become bored. I am actually sort of bored already. I am not one to … Continue reading →

I lost my Dear Nora CD a few months ago, and have been really bummed about it. Mountain Rock. I need it! Steve burned me a copy a couple of days ago, and I have been listening to it pretty … Continue reading →

Thursday night was the big holiday extravaganza that my school produces every year. This is not the swaying-on-the-risers-while-singing-Jingle-Bells po-dunk concert that you and I might have participated in many moons ago. Rather it is a 20+ song multicultural bonanza, involving … Continue reading →