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Farming On Concrete
I Love You Recipes | June 26th 2008 by RJ
The wife and I celebrated our wedding anniversary over the weekend. After considerable conversation about where we might go and what activities we might both enjoy, she came up with an idea that wouldn’t have come to me if I’d sat on a rock for read more
Breaking Bread With Frank And Dean And Barbra
I Love You Recipes | June 17th 2008 by RJ
There used to be a place on Hollywood Boulevard where members of the entertainment industry would line up, often beneath a broiling sun, sometimes suffering humiliation and even physical abuse, for the privilege of dining. And I joyfully joined them read more
The Fleet’s In Town!
I Love You Recipes | June 10th 2008 by RJ
There’s almost as much water up here in the Pacific Northwest as there are trees. And believe me, there are lots of trees. I’m not the only one who appreciates all that aqua. Portland devotes an entire week to honoring the stuff…or more speci read more
My Life As A Billiard Ball
I Love You Recipes | June 4th 2008 by RJ
About once a week, my wife realizes that I must be lathering for the taste of ice cream. So, because she loves me dearly, ice cream we have; for otherwise she’s sure that I will die. In the same vein, pasta is bad for her waistline, she reminds m read more
Crossing Paths With Warren Buffett
I Love You Recipes | May 20th 2008 by RJ
The clouds and rain that usually hang over Portland, OR, went somewhere else for a few hours one recent weekend and the inhabitants of this mossy city literally bounded outside as if sunlight were a 21st century phenomenon. The appearance of the sun read more
Eating Until I Laughed…Or Cried
I Love You Recipes | May 13th 2008 by RJ
I have a history of perfectly lovely restaurant experiences changing suddenly in ways that I could never have predicted. For instance: Despite its name, Dr. Hogly Wogly’s Tyler Texas BBQ is located in the San Fernando Valley, which was gobbled up read more
Reading A Sign, Down At 5th & Morrison
I Love You Recipes | May 6th 2008 by RJ
It’s a shame that people don’t come equipped with a sign above their head that advertises a little about who they really are. An appropriately designed sign would float approximately two inches in the air, and would spell out for the rest of us a read more
The Strawberry Meets King Kong
I Love You Recipes | April 29th 2008 by RJ
My wife is a killer. Electric blenders are her favorite prey. Our garage is a graveyard of sexy buttons and shiny chrome camouflaging snapped connecting pins and burnt-out motors. We’re not talking inexpensive junk here. A pretty fair sampling of read more
Helpless Man! Helpless Man!
I Love You Recipes | April 15th 2008 by RJ
My wife thinks that I wield what she calls the spell of the Helpless Man. According to her, this incantation causes females to rush to my aid. Women, she says, are especially vulnerable inside gift stores, jewelry stores, and the aisles of grocery read more
Oh, Barber, Where Art Thou???
I Love You Recipes | April 8th 2008 by RJ
I have very few requirements for a barber. I like him or her to go about the business in a quick, quiet manner, leaving anything containing blood unbreached. I like to pay no more than nineteen-dollars, which in my opinion is fair compensation for read more
Ridin’ The Rails On A Snowy Saturday
I Love You Recipes | April 2nd 2008 by RJ
Portland, OR, has one of America’s great public transportation systems. Four-bucks and a quarter buys you a day pass on all forty-four miles of light rail, plus the streetcar system and all the city’s buses, for as many times as you care to ride read more
Meet Tweet & Twit
I Love You Recipes | March 25th 2008 by RJ
My wife is a nurturer. Show her a creature that’s sick or in danger and you’d better step aside, because she’s gonna charge to its rescue. This is a blessing when I’m sick, and often an inconvenience when an unfortunate of another species i read more
Adults Do The Darndest Things
I Love You Recipes | March 18th 2008 by RJ
I took the train to downtown the other day. I got off at the square and found myself face-to-face with a couple-hundred dancing adults and a smattering of children doing the same. No costumes. No cameras. No judges nor prizes that I could see. S read more
Running With The VIPs
I Love You Recipes | March 7th 2008 by RJ
The wife was otherwise engaged the other day, leaving me alone and with nothing to do. So as I often do, I slipped into the car and headed to the city. I’d almost gotten to the freeway when I got in the way of a VIP. I knew he was a very importan read more
The Crowded Bed
I Love You Recipes | February 21st 2008 by RJ
My wife claims to sleep with as many as a half-dozen men nearly every night. I tell her she’s crazy, as not a night’s gone by when we haven’t been together, since that long-ago morning when we were hitched. And though ours is a king-size bed, read more
Bat Ears!!!
I Love You Recipes | February 7th 2008 by RJ
My wife has bat ears. I have worm ears. As you probably know, worms don’t have ears. So by implication, my hearing isn’t worth squat. My wife can hear a pin drop on a deep pile carpet at the other end of the house during a thunderstorm. I can he read more
Her Nose Knows
I Love You Recipes | February 4th 2008 by RJ
The wife and I were on our way to our favorite Mexican restaurant. Actually, it’s the only outstanding Mexican restaurant that we’ve found so far in the Pacific Northwest. We’ve tried all the standard tricks: Ask friends for recommendations. read more
“Let Me Show You One Of The Best Books That I’ve Ever Read”
I Love You Recipes | January 31st 2008 by RJ
“Looking for a gift for a guy?” I asked. Her eyes widened. I had startled her. She was sixteen or so and unattractive, chubby, shod in old dirty tennis shoes, and she had pink hair and a bolt in her nose. Her girlfriend, whose hair had gone bl read more
I Am The Most Attractive Person On Earth
I Love You Recipes | January 24th 2008 by RJ
I am the most attractive person on Earth. And I can prove it. Late the other afternoon, I decided to hang out in downtown Portland for no reason in particular. I like watching the people and cars and trucks and bicycles and the streetcars go by. I read more
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