Sunday Edition: Playing Hooky in the Sunshine and Portland Coffee Shops

Tons of photos from a packed week.

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

A post-hike coffee at Good Coffee in Troutdale, basking in the sun

This week began in the midst of Portland’s notorious “false spring,” with sixty-degree, sunshiney days that I took full advantage of, playing hooky to hike with friends in the Columbia River Gorge. By Wednesday, the overcast skies and rain had already returned, drawing me (and every other person in Oregon) back indoors, with brief walks and ventures out for soup and coffee. This balance is one of my favorite things about Portland: the rainy days make the sunny ones feel that much more magical. Read on for a few obsessions and thoughts from the week, tons of photos, and an invitation to our book club meeting…