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Not memoir, but as close as I'll ever get: METAL SHOP & Art for Art's Sake andpride.com/2026/09/04/m...
METAL SHOP & Art for Art’s Sake
A couple of years ago, I took a class at the Portland metal studio, Ninety-Twenty. I wanted to recreate a sterling ring I’d made for Gary while I was still in high school in the fall of 1968 …
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For when the madness ends: a 5-point plan for getting conservation back on track in the US www.southernfriedscience.com/for-when-the...
For when the madness ends: a 5-point plan for getting conservation back on track in the US
Let’s not mince words: the last eighteen months have been an absolute nightmare for federal ocean and conservation policy. Landmark environmental protections have been rolled back or severely hobbl…
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MEAN GREENIES Firework trash, plot lines, and ravens janpriddyoregon.wordpress.com/2026/07/15/m...
MEAN GREENIES
Yeti, our last dog’s favorite treat was a Greenie, a green starchy chewable bone-shaped object she could chew into bits and swallow in a minute of two. Green meanies are something else and th…
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COVERS I try not to judge books by their covers—sometimes it works, sometimes not. workshttps://janpriddyoregon.wordpress.com/2026/07/03/covers/
COVERS
cover yourself I’ve got you covered that’s a great cover you’ll need cover June was an eventful month, and I have a few photos to prove it. My MFA residency happened in Forest Gro…
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Why I might choose the bear. janpriddyoregon.wordpress.com/2026/06/26/s...
CHOOSING THE BEAR
It is widely reported that given the theoretical choice of meeting a man or a bear in the dark, most women will choose the bear. Men are justly offended by this report. Women take a breath and nod.…
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BUSY DAYS “Medicine filled the land.”https://janpriddyoregon.wordpress.com/2026/06/19/busy-days/
BUSY DAYS
June is ridiculously busy, which is not something I can say about most months. Most months my busy is entirely self-inflicted. I read, sew, knit, run, post online. Scrub floors. Gary and I drive to…
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It's Friday, and I'm making plans. janpriddyoregon.wordpress.com/2026/06/12/s...
START HERE
My goal was to post once a week on Fridays. I had posted randomly, sometimes a few times in a week, sometimes a few times in a month. It seemed to me that reliability should count for something. Mo…
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It's all about not merely accepting the inevitability of aging, but hoping to earn it. janpriddyoregon.wordpress.com/2026/06/05/n...
LOOKING AHEAD
I have a cold and our building fire alarm woke me just after 4am this morning. I would have liked sleeping a bit longer. But since I was up and a neighbor sent me a link to his father’s obitu…
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CAT POPULATION Might the Earth benefit from a reboot? janpriddyoregon.wordpress.com/2026/05/29/c...
CAT POPULATION
I was reading an upbeat story about a species of dove native to a Pacific island that had become extinct in the wild since 1972 due to human activity and human-introduced species. Cats are often ci…
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WILL BOB FOR AGATES janpriddyoregon.wordpress.com/2026/05/15/w...
WILL BOB FOR AGATES
On beach runs, I cannot resist the amber agate, striped limpet, or rare bit of glass. I circle, bend to pluck them from the ground, and bring them home. I pile stones on the coffee table, line limp…
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We might recover. Nazi Germany did. CROSSING TO SAFETY janpriddyoregon.wordpress.com/2026/05/08/c...
CROSSING TO SAFETY
When I cross the street I look both ways, even when I’m in a crosswalk, even with there is a light telling me I may, and I look both ways even at a crossing of two one-way streets where I sho…
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Before I can begin something new, I like to clear my work space. janpriddyoregon.wordpress.com/2026/04/24/c...
CLEANING
A favorite Heritage Tree in Portland, shown in winter. It began dying a few years ago. It’s gone, but a sapling thrives in its place.
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MY FAVORITE BIRD The sun is peaking through. janpriddyoregon.wordpress.com/2026/04/17/1...
MY FAVORITE BIRD
Six months ago, Gary and I stopped drinking altogether. Gary tells people who ask that he stopped because I asked him to as a birthday present. Okay. Maybe. It saves money, spares us hangovers, and…
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"Think how the other person must feel." I'm old, but not doddering. Still, the times are changing without me. janpriddyoregon.wordpress.com/2026/04/10/t...
“Think how the other person must feel.”
My mother said those words to me hundreds or thousands, or perhaps only a few dozen times. They were the words that stuck, the instruction that carried over into my dreams where I routinely switch …
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EASTER, a billion dollars Tax dollars, a holiday, and the screaming man. janpriddyoregon.wordpress.com/2026/04/05/e...
EASTER, a billion dollars
It was still dark the second time I woke this morning, and I remembered the screaming man. We’d walked to Portland State University to the Saturday Farmers Market. I was hoping to find organi…
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NO KINGS in my country Sadly, it won't be for the last time. janpriddyoregon.wordpress.com/2026/04/03/n...
NO KINGS in my country
“More than 3,200 events took place across the country on Saturday [March 28, 2026], from New York City to Driggs, Idaho, a town of fewer than 2,000 people in a state Trump carried with 66 per…
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I RAN TODAY It sounds like a joke, but it isn't. janpriddyoregon.wordpress.com/2026/04/01/i...
I RAN TODAY
I am aware this sounds like an April Fool’s joke, but it isn’t. My second Bridge Crossing, I think, three and a half years ago on 9 October 2022. I ran the next year or the year after. …
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