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wow, it has been so long i almost don't feel like a blogger anymore.

1. we have been in oregon, which is lush, beautiful and friendly (at least the parts we were in). we stayed in a couple of very bizarre rental houses (the koi pond in the picture is from one of them), saw some enormous trees, ate lots of fresh fruits, checked out eugene and portland and just hung out.

2. i sort of have a job. i am a contributing writer for a luxury green website that is getting started. it remains to be seen how regular this will be, but it is great work. today i wrote an article about a luxury olive oil that lets you adopt your own tree in their orchard. what is really luxurious, though, is not feeling like i have to finish ten articles per day.

3. we're going to a "hip mamas" meetup at the children's museum this friday. i'm not very hip, but i'm not really the other thing either (whatever other unhip mamas are, i mean, not a mama, which i obviously am). i really need to make some friends with kids, so hopefully this will work out. also, we are hoping that river will love the children's museum, so we can take him there to get out of the house once the weather gets colder.

4. i love my shamanic herbalism correspondence course.

5. i have been reading interesting parenting books like "unconditional parenting". lots to think about...

6. hopefully blogging will resume, maybe more on these subjects later.