Theme: String(s) | Next Week: Wild These shoes hanging over Hawthorne Street in Portland, Oregon by their laces, (or strings) are a perfect example of shoe tossing (or shoe flinging). Shoe tossing (or shoe flinging), the act of using shoes as improvised projectiles or weapons, is a constituent of a number of folk sports and [...]

Pinot Noir specifically – from the Willamette Valley in Oregon. I admit it – I have a love affair going on with Oregon Pinot Noir’s. So much that I “stocked up” (mostly at the terrific wine department at Fred Meyer’s in the Hollywood District of Portland) before coming home. Sandi had asked, “Did you ever [...]