Author Archives: liveoaklinda

Green Balls & White Balls

Posted on September 12, 2012 by liveoaklinda

During times of upheaval & more-than-the-usual-degree of stress, there’s alot to be said for the familiar.  No doubt, that’s one reason common wisdom says don’t change your job (if you’re lucky to have one & you can stay there) right … Continue reading →

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E.T. Come Back!

Posted on September 2, 2012 by liveoaklinda

Science fiction was my reading of choice for more than a decade – during college & thereafter until the kiddies happened into our lives. Frank Herbert, Orson Scott Card, William Gibson, Ursula Le Guin, Robert Heinlein, Isaac Asimov…I thought there … Continue reading →

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When Continents Collide

Posted on August 23, 2012 by liveoaklinda

I wish I could recall the exact moment when I first got plate tectonics – it seems to me now that understanding the unfixed nature of things is the basis of so much human knowledge about this planet we live on, &, … Continue reading →

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Can Grandmas Have It All?

Posted on August 15, 2012 by liveoaklinda

There’s been no avoiding the latest mothers-who-also-have-paid-work debate, a.k.a. the mommy wars.  Does anyone else out there think there’s something missing in this latest salvo? & no, I don’t mean the daddy’s, although one has to wonder what’s going through … Continue reading →

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A Kitchen Facing West

Posted on August 9, 2012 by liveoaklinda

Have you noticed how the light has changed in the past few days?  & the new edge to the morning fog?  Technically we’re still in the middle of summer, but I always thought it a little odd that our calendar … Continue reading →

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Bats in Portland

Posted on August 6, 2012 by liveoaklinda

Don’t worry, this isn’t about the Dark Knight.  Well, maybe it is about the dark night & the bats that may come with it.  Have you ever really thought about bats??  I hadn’t. I took a much-needed 4-day mini-vacation in … Continue reading →

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A Rat On His Back

Posted on July 25, 2012 by liveoaklinda

I was heading home the other day & a bicyclist rode by with a very large white rat on his shoulder, the long pink tail hanging down his bare back.  Man & rat, heading home together…it was a sweet sight. … Continue reading →

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funky thursday

Posted on July 19, 2012 by liveoaklinda

I think I’m still in recovery from that last post.  I didn’t intend for it to be a tribute to Kelsey, but of course it seemed that way by publishing it on her birthday.  I’d been working on it for … Continue reading →

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Schizophrenia Quartet

Posted on July 14, 2012 by liveoaklinda

1 A recent Facebook post asserted that “FB is schizophrenic…enough to make my head spin…!” A local hospital administrator misused the term in a public presentation, and a recent letter in the local paper ‘accuses’ U.S Supreme Court Chief Justice … Continue reading →

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Evolution Is Not Progress

Posted on July 8, 2012 by liveoaklinda

Don’t worry, I haven’t become a creationist! But for heaven’s sake, can we please stop using this misleading evolution graphic?? AND all the endless permutations of the same misleading “progress of man” theme…OK, some of them are funny, & some … Continue reading →

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