Sister Week

“What’s the good news if you haven’t a sister to share it with?” — Jenny DeVries A few weeks ago, Cath’ came to visit for a week. While I pretended that she came just to see me in reality she …

Reason #3 to live in Boring, Oregon: Look What I Found on the Side of the Road

If you’ve ever lived east of the Cascades in Oregon, you know that every home-owner and gardener spends 49-50 weeks out of the year fighting the ever-present, indestructible wild blackberry. But for two or three short weeks every summer they …

Reason #1 to live in Boring, Oregon: The Tall One

I posted about strawberry jam today as a reason to live here. And I still think that’s true. But it didn’t sit right that it was “reason #1.” Because it is certainly not my raison d’etre. The real number one …

Reason #2 to live in Boring, Oregon: Strawberry Jam

“You can grow anything here,” my sister told me when I first talked about planting some things here. And she’s right. In this tiny village of 10,000 people there are some 12 professional nurseries and countless farms. So one of …