Kitchen Dances

Millimeter Skin on Jul 27, 2009Curiously strangeIn middle black of nightFaint luminescenceThe barest touch of your leg on mineShallow breath rise and fallRise and fall through Known sweet taste of pink lipsThe barest touch of a millimeter skinWhat is being nowIn the deep dark of t...

Burlington Northern Freight on Jul 27, 2009My love for trains began before I really knew my ancestral history.When I was about sixteen, living in Helena Montana, I caught a freight train for a three hour ride.My good friend Matt Marsolek and I were up helping his Dad pull six-foot logs out of...

Modernizing America's Railroads - High Speed on Jul 22, 2009 in railroad high speed rail There is a great analysis of High Speed Rail in America over at Daily Kos.Introduction:If there is any area of American life that puts paid to the fiction that America's economic growth was a miracle of the free market, it must be transportation. Fro...

Commentary On Note To Men & a poem I found I like on Jul 14, 2009Mary Louise's "Note To Men" (see below) begs a reply. You letter, Mary, could so easily be converted by a man and titled "Note To Women". You speak of the myriad attributes of what makes the opposite sex so damn intriguing. The same could be said...

A Letter To Men by Mary Louise Parker on Jul 13, 2009this was in the August issue of Esquire...To you, whom it may concern:Manly creature, who smells good even when you don't, you wake up too slowly, with fuzzy, vertical hair and a slightly lost look on your face as though you are seven or seventy-five...

Hawthorne Urban Farmers Week 2 on Jun 30, 2009Hawthorne Urban Farmers Market every Sunday SE Hawthorne and 41st Portland OR Urban agriculture is the practice of cultivating, processing and distributing food in, or around (peri-urban), a village, town or city.[1] Urban farming is generally p...

New Urban Farmers Market on Jun 22, 2009 in hawthorne common grounds urban farmer from the Farmers ~The Revolution Will Be Ediblefeaturing produce, sprouts, plant starts, garden-related items and all things foodie, produced within just a few miles of market!Finally, Southeast Portland's revolutionary urban farmers have a retail ho...