Category Archives: Postcards

Another Postcard: Weird Chicago Gothic

From my twenty-second floor hotel room window, I have a great view of some of Chicago’s most interesting downtown buildings.  I call the architectural style here Weird Chicago Gothic.  Tall 100 year-old stone structures wear spires, buttresses, ornate carvings and … Continue reading

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Habits: Another Postcard from Chicago

Habits and coffee: I need both.  Though the latter refreshes for the moment, the former contributes to a happy life.  How difficult the discipline to form habits, maybe especially living out of a hotel room.  I’m wanting to set up … Continue reading

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Postcard from Chicago – By The Lake

Since I should write at least one postcard sitting by the Lake, well, here I am doing just that.  Ironic that the Sea of Galilee looks so lake-like but Lake Michigan, so like the sea.  Its impossibly blue, turquoise, sometimes … Continue reading

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Postcard From 6,000 Feet

How did I end up more than halfway up 11,000 foot Mount Hood?  Nearly two weeks ago we toured Portland, an urban jewel set in a mossed-tree temperate rain forest.  Then, a drive south along the Oregon Coast oohing and aahing at dramatic … Continue reading

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Another Postcard: Donuts in Portland

We ate donuts our last day in Portland at a famous shop called Voodoo Donuts.  Their tasty products, cake and yeast goodies unusually and richly colored and flavored, labor under thick swaths of icing encrusted with colorful sweet cereals, mini candies and treats.  … Continue reading

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Postcard From Court

We developed a new style of trip: a court vacation.  Spectated all day yesterday at this town’s superior court.  Enjoyed our ring-side seat to this constitutional democracy’s rule of law practiced by the judge, lawyers, correctional professionals.  We  watched with … Continue reading

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Another Postcard: More From the Oregon Coast

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Postcard from the Oregon Coast

We found a lovely hotel built right along the beach.  We look out from our room to see a full frontal view of the Pacific.  We watch storms blow in and then away, blue skies and water to gray and … Continue reading

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