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jessica

About Me



Portland, OR I
sing
loudly
Berkeley, CA

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

Anybody in or around the Hollow Square. Kindred spirits and spirited kin. Believers, conceivers and co-conspirators. Men who smile and women who have big laughs. Anybody who can make me laugh.

Seaside, OR
New York, NY

Portland, OR
Ann Arbor, MI

Portland, OR
Bainbridge Island, WA

My Blog

An L.A. Moment

In the midst of a challenging - yet ultimately productive - week, I took an afternoon off to go to the Sandy River for a swim with two of my best girlfriends -- Tamara (from Portland) and Molly (from ...
Posted by on Mon, 18 Aug 2008 01:24:00 GMT

Moon Moments

A scant few moon-moments have awed me so intensely as the low-hanging orange crescent I just saw as I drove due west down Burnside earlier tonight. Once when I was 15, my friend Carrie and I were dri...
Posted by on Sun, 06 Jul 2008 22:57:00 GMT

Mr. Livingston’s Grandmother

The cemetery at Johnson Schoolhouse must be a relatively new one. There are maybe a dozen graves at the site. They are ordered in two precise and condensed rows, with no space between them. More sites...
Posted by on Mon, 16 Jun 2008 20:21:00 GMT

singing school notes

On my way to Olympia in a few minutes to teach a singing school. I don't have the whole lesson plan together yet, but I've been musing on it the last couple of nights. Being sick, I couldn't sleep any...
Posted by on Sun, 18 May 2008 11:15:00 GMT

3 + 3 = chix

The chicken count at our house is now up to *six*. Here are the latest additions: Vasili finished the chicken coop today, and we let the three older chicks walk around in the garden while we ate bre...
Posted by on Sat, 12 Apr 2008 15:27:00 GMT

o say grim death

Last December I used up nearly all of my hard-won frequent flyer miles to go to Ann Arbor, Michigan for less than 24 hours. The reason? To see my friend Tim perform with the University of Michigan Sym...
Posted by on Thu, 10 Apr 2008 09:35:00 GMT

On the tele.

Right. So... did I mention that I sing? Yeah. So here’s what that’s all about: http://www.opb.org/programs/artbeat/videos/view/89-Portlanf- Sacred-Harp.
Posted by on Wed, 02 Apr 2008 09:32:00 GMT