Category: creativity
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My strategy is working. Last year after visiting Stockholm and learning about this “cozy winter” vibe they espouse, I decided to give it a try. Stockholm has long cold winters. Eugene, Oregon has mild, rainy, medium-length winters. My first winter in Oregon—after a decade in Anchorage—I thought I’d died and come to heaven. No snow,…
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An electric vehicle changes everything about a road trip. I’m a deep believer in flying down the highway at 60 mph. The momentum, the smacking rhythm of the tires, the small-town gas stations, the pee breaks in the sagebrush by the highway in the dark. There’s music in it, somehow. Alone in the car, my…
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It’s whimsy, OK? But it’s more than that. We stumbled on Stan Peterson’s work by accident, when a road trip we planned didn’t pan out and we needed a new destination. So. We’re lying on a blanket under a shady tree in Spokane’s Riverfront Park (wonderful, surprising, must-be-visited). We’re bummed because we can’t proceed to…
Susan Palmer's Exquisite Now 