Featured, Life

Small Things: My Morning Coffee Delivery

7 Comments 22 May 2013

Diamond rings, fancy houses, fast cars, fresh cut flowers? You can keep all that shiny stuff. He brings me coffee every morning. Every single morning. Hot, strong, perfect coffee. Even when we’re camping. It’s the thing I miss most when I’m away. Winky-eyed and warm at 5 in the morning, the entire day stretched out [...]

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Featured, Food

8 Week Jump Start Weight Loss Challenge

39 Comments 20 May 2013

In which I wave goodbye to pork belly for a while. Do you know how much I love pork belly? A lot. It is a lot of love. It is the same size love that I have for handmade pasta, popcorn topped with bacon (lede image) or an alcohol forward cocktail made with bourbon, absinthe [...]

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Featured, Gear

Review: Assos rainBootie_S7

2 Comments 17 May 2013

Nothing says S&M superhero quite like an oil slick bootie. Besides making me feel slightly naughty (sadly, this may be the most risqué piece of clothing I own), the rainBootie_S7 performed impressively in Portland’s persistently rainy conditions. The 434 stretch fabric is coated with a proprietary polyurethane that Assos developed specifically for this purpose: the [...]

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Cycling, Featured, Photos

PhotoGlimmer: Wrong Turn

4 Comments 16 May 2013

Traci took a wrong turn. I had stopped to wait for the rest of the group. I was standing at the crossroads when she went by. I knew she was going the wrong way, but instead of telling her, I snapped this photo. She was too happy and it was too beautiful and I was [...]

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Featured, Photos

PhotoGlimmer: Saturdaze

3 Comments 14 May 2013

City bikes with friends. Brewery after brewery, pint after pint. 87 degrees and a little muggy. Portland explodes with people. In the park, white bodies sprawl across the grass, sail through the air after frisbees. Dogs and humanity. Babies and bums. Bodies moist with sweat, hearts saturated with sunshine. At the bottle shop, a Pliny [...]

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Featured, Photos

Photoglimmer: Rippers Undressed

No Comments 13 May 2013

Nate Ripperton. Known to some as “Rippers”. Efficient, detail-oriented, clever, charming and hard-working; all the characteristics you would look for in a guide. He knows what you want before you want it, remembers how you like your bottles, drives a mean support van and tells jokes, some of which are actually funny. Big gold heart, [...]

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