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How many years have I coveted the many, many Little Free Libraries that dot our corner of literary and literate Portland, Oregon? Well, the Little Free Library folks in Minneapolis, Minnesota had a sale over Memorial Day weekend — free shipping — so I treated myself to their original style library. The library kit and the cedar post were made by Amish woodworkers in Wisconsin
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We have to replace the wall-to-wall carpeting in the upstairs floor of our 1938 house. It is worn out. Wrinkled, falling apart, let alone desperately in need of a cleaning. It was installed by the previous owners of this house whose daughter had the knotty pine room that is my writing studio as her bedroom. We have now been here for seventeen years so the carpet is likely twenty-five years old or more. Beyond its life expectancy according to the rug guys at Linoleum City on SE MLK Boulevard …
I think it’s hitting me tonight—after a spate of days spent socializing and the Arctic air and sun along with the piles steadily growing, day after day, on the edges of the rooms on the first floor of the house—here we go again! I am so longing to be settled, to be home…
