In November of 1974, in New York City, the artist Jean Dupuy spent 9 hours making soup and then invited people to come to The Kitchen, have some soup and bread and apple tart and watch 38 artists each present a 2 minute performance, reading, dance, musical piece, poem, story…whatever. It was called “Soup & […]
“Picketing is a form of protest in which people (called picketers) congregate outside a location where an event is taking place. Often, this is done in an attempt to draw public attention to a cause.” It’s been a LONG time since I’ve been on a picket line. Tonight I joined a few intrepid activists on […]
I’m cleaning the dining room chairs in advance of the new table that is coming in December. What seemed a chore yesterday, today became a meditation on old family things, the patina of age, and my mother-in-law. The chairs have been at our house for 20 years, since Mo died. As the eldest child, R […]
Annually, in the fall when the geese start south, we start thinking of doing something “new” in the house. “The Fall Fix-up” we call it. This year the project is growing like topsy…it began with just painting the trim around the upstairs windows after they were repaired, and then we decided to switch rooms on […]
Last weekend we stayed at the wonderful Wave Crest in Cannon Beach, being lovers of the authentic Oregon experience, and it was fun. When owner (Daryl)Hank Johnson was a Portlander (curator at the Washington Park Rose Garden) he often stayed at the Wave Crest, and then just up and bought it from his retiring friends […]
This post is probably going to be in the “too much information” category for most of you…but I HAVE to do it. It does, however, explain why it has been so quiet from these parts for awhile. We’ve been hunkering down while this very old house has been thoroughly gone over, repaired and painted in […]
Let’s back track a little. Cutler City, site of our aforementioned beach house, is at the far south end of the “Ten Miracles Miles” known as “Lincoln City” (a made-up name used to designate the small towns of Ocean Lake, Delake, Nelscott, Taft and Cutler City, which became as one in March of 1965). Historically […]
In July I dashed to New Mexico for a luxurious and fun week with Mary, a friend from the Chicago days (we go wayyy back…). I flew in from Portland and she from Chicago… and we met at the airport. After a great dinner and proper toast we headed out of Albuquerque for Mary’s house… […]
I was reading in the New York Times about the current controversy between Peggy Guggenheim’s heirs, and the Guggenheim Museum’s administration of the Peggy Guggenheim Museum in Venice http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/08/arts/design/fight-over-guggenheims-legacy-roils-her-palazzo.html?smid=fb-share&smv1&_r=0, and I feel like making a brief comment about a place I really loved. The museum is in the beautiful palazzo Guggenheim had built on the […]
Well not exactly news actually, but news to me. My friend Karen is an archivist of sorts…she saves, she bundles, she files…then she purges by sending off the myriad clippings and files she has saved to the people she knows are interested. The other day this came in the mail… And she’s right…I love quonset […]
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