by Jan Bear | Mar 27, 2005 | Uncategorized
Western Easter, 2005I stopped at the Starbucks in Lake Oswego after church today. It’s the second Sunday in Lent for us Orthodox (Pascha is May 1), because of a glitch in the calendar and Orthodox recalcitrance. Papacino’s, our neighborhood coffee shop,...
by Jan Bear | Mar 14, 2005 | Uncategorized
I would have thought from the title of Alain de Botton’s Status Anxiety that it’s just another self-help book and have passed on it. In fact, it is another self-help book, in a way, but this author of The Art of Travel makes the genre something beautiful,...
by Jan Bear | Feb 28, 2005 | Uncategorized
I can’t type any more, because someone moved all the keys around. When I stand in the choir, my hands are doing the steno of the lyrics. I’m on lesson 26 of 32 in Phoenix theory before I begin speedbuilding in earnest — going from somewhere in the...
by Jan Bear | Feb 20, 2005 | Uncategorized
It’s partly to try out the Flickr photo application, partly to introduce my friends Mocha and Sadie. Here we are on our way to an excellent adventure in the park. We were on our way to Tryon Creek State Park, a 645-acre network of trails along a ravine on the...
by Jan Bear | Feb 17, 2005 | Uncategorized
. . . the Twilight Zone.So I was at class the other night, and we finished our speed drills about 6:45 or so, and I went to the break room for a cup of tea and came back and started writing sentences, and all of a sudden I felt bad. Headache, upset stomach, chills,...