A new blogging conference, Press Publish, is taking place in Portland, Oregon on March 28, 2015. That’s this month! In Portland! The land of Voodoo Donuts, the Max, vegan food coma central, and all of the other fun things you can do while in Portland. My friend Andrea at Automattic contacted me and wanted to …
Yesterday I was scolded for not wearing socks in our new apartment’s wood floors after receiving a splinter in my heel. Who wears socks on wood floors though? I’m certainly not going to! A wood floor feels amazing underfoot, especially a barefoot foot. This is also the first time with ‘our’ own wood floors …
About 2 weeks ago now I used up another one of my google offer purchases. Woot! I love actually using them and not letting them go to waste. A google offer is much like a groupon deal. The deal is for a product or service in your area where you get 30-60% off. The most …
I made it just in time. If you’ve ever bought an AmazonLocal, Google Offers, Groupon, or Living Social deal, you’ll know what I mean. Each of these companies offer a unique daily deal, redeemable for a product or service in your area. Say Whole Foods was the deal today, you would …
Have you ever felt you were part of a group that experienced something truly special? That’s how I felt last night, for so many reasons. The Lumineers and their opening acts put on a glorious show, last night, March 30, 2012, at Mississippi studios. I think it was December when I first heard the song …
This is a case where direct marketing worked on me and a case where I was okay with it. 🙂 I received an email from Twitter that Homegrown Smoker had followed me. It makes sense, I list that I’m in Portland and the word vegan is in the bio, as in high-vegan. Sometimes I click …
We had family in town during the first week in December had a great time showing them our hangouts and a lot of the downtown and Alberta street areas. Disappointingly we didn’t get to any city trail hiking and there’s so much of that! Good reason for another visit. We did however make it out …