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Sunday Edition: Officially On the Road (!)

Highlights from my last week in Portland.

Oct 05, 2025
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The Sunday Edition is Tuesday’s little sister—off-the-cuff updates I’d bring up over a coffee catch-up with a friend.

I’m writing this before dawn at my parent’s dining table, Toast curled up at my feet, the longest leg of my trip behind us! In a few minutes, we’ll continue on to L.A., where we’re staying with my brother and his partner, and getting dinner with one of my oldest friends. Happy reunions at the end of eight, nine hours of driving!

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It’s an apt ending to a week that progressed in fits and starts—curling up with our Morning Person book club pick, then running a million errands; sneaking out for long rainy walks amid a flurry of last-minute packing; getting waylaid by my COVID and flu vaccines, but still making it to a mid-week concert.

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