Take life a step at a time. Be there when people slip up. Play the long run. Who cares what people think. Focus on the big picture and do not feel like you always have to prove yourself to everyone. Astoria

I missed last month due to connection issues and schedule conflicts, but I'm back for the November edition of LEO Power Up Day! If you see this post before the UTC calendar rolls over to the 16th, and

Mario Kart DS. Mario 3D World. Rabbit. Zero Cat. Hiking Fork. Arcade Cafe reminded me of Back to The Future. Sky Hawk. Rival Turf. Banh Mi Ca, fish sandwich, at the restaurant. Highway 30 was interesting.

This was a really long trip at that point in my life, possibly the longest I've ever had so far at that point in my life. The trip lasted for around a week or so, it might have been around spring break

This was a really long trip at that point in my life, possibly the longest I've ever had so far at that point in my life. The trip lasted for around a week or so, it might have been around spring break

Here is one shot of the downtown gathering in front of the Liberty theater in which the mayor and many showed up to turn on the lights of Commercial Street, a small town celebration. The queer choir opened

I spend this evening with writers, one famous? Maybe, more, all are published and two prolifically. I couldn’t tell you their names—well, not last sur’s. And all night they talk about the little money

I’m joined by Swarthy Immigrant and he tells anecdotes about growing up in Astoria, Queens, the book/movie "A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints," the music scene and "Unscrewy Gus."

This past Sunday, at the market, I ran into this lovely man who was typing up on-the-spot poetry. Walking with my youngest son and daughter, I smiled and said loud enough for him to hear, "Yes, we

is more about cachet in my mind and those who don’t need to prove their trove is full of the heavy books I’d read various volumes on, the same ‘ole social stratification amongst the genders and races in

There is a white house on Kensington, the place where the kid lived who used to come over and drink an entire jug of milk, the one my ex-husband went off the rails on, the kid of alcoholic parents who

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We’ve got a blue bathtub, 1950’s throw-back toilet and sink, a remodel in our 1922 home, one in which we’ve not updated. I see these same sets, though perfectly gleaming, torn from other homes, tagged

Bones whitened, partially buried in sand under slipping sunsets, hollowed of birds or heavy as femurs, I am only that water held into dimpled flesh upon the frail structure of long spine and the thin pars

Difficult to trick the phone into snapping so close, but it can be done if you're quick enough ;) View from my window. I like to hang prisms so that my home is filled with dancing rainbows, as it can get

A picture taken from my hotel room during the weekend of Fort George's "Festival of the Dark Arts" in 2014. I also used this picture as cover art for one of my ambient pieces titled Amaranthine

Three crows in alder, you, under bowing hemlock, another gray day. A haiku for @dbooster contest.

A picture of the Youngs River taken from the park area of The Astoria Column in Astoria, OR. Steepshot | IPFS | Google Play

The Column is on Coxcomb Hill in Astoria, OR. It is a great place to visit if you are in the area. The Column is covered with murals depicting the history of the area. There are circular stairs inside