I Remember Blogging

[calendula_witch]

Wait, didn’t I used to keep a blog?

It’s been so long that, though I am going to attempt a recap of what’s happened since I last showed up here (March), I am certain to miss a million things. And I have no real excuses-just busy, crazy, life, etc etc, the usual. That is all.

I turned 50 on Monday. Which is making me look up from the fray. I am

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[martianmooncrab]

but wow, the difference, in just that time

having grown up in Sellwood, the city is becoming a horror... there are no working class neighborhoods anymore.

[joycemocha]

This. With our half-time life in Portland, we see the changes every time we come down. When that trip is every other week...well, that tells you the pace of change.

[calendula_witch]

And as if to illustrate this...in my email just now there is your comment, martianmooncrab's comment, and a LinkedIn email with the subject line, "Shannon, more than 30,000 new jobs in the Portland, Oregon area!"

[martianmooncrab]

more than 30,000 new jobs in the Portland, Oregon area

....if you dont mind minimum wage, seasonal work, and no housing, and if you do find housing, no parking!

[calendula_witch]

I remember being so impressed when I moved here, how easy it was to park. One of my favorite Portland stories used to be how I went to the hardware store in Sellwood for the first time, and the entire block in front of the store was not-parked-on, and I thought, Oh, it's a no-parking zone. So I went around the block and parked on a side street, walked back to the store--only to see someone parked there, because it was an entire block of parking spaces.

I don't think that would be true today.