A couple of days ago I was visiting my friend Kim at her home in Happy Valley, an area that's being carpeted by tract homes and McMans...

By now, "buy local" is a mantra for everything from where we shop for groceries to where we buy our books. Not that the interne...

Ever since my brother moved his wine shop, Vino , from its decade-long home in Sellwood to a new (and awesome) location on 28th Avenue, I...

One of my favorite events this time of year is a garage sale. No, it's not where I get all those special gifts for the people I care a...

No, it's not a Constable painting of a the English countryside, it's a snapshot I took while on one of Sauvie Island's terri...

I have lots of pet theories (no pun intended). One is that my cat can read my mind, because whenever it's time to go to the vet she m...

Contributor Jim Dixon just got back from a month-long sojourn in Italy visiting friends and the suppliers of the fantastic products he ca...

I've been dying to write this post since we got back from our Okanagan road trip, but I've forced myself to stick to the itinerar...

Neither is it the Space Needle. Nor marmalade. Nor a lawn mower. Nor…well…you catch my drift. But it's definitely a crack-up when you...

An incredible series of images from the breakup of the Occupy Portland camp by Oregonian photographers Beth Nakamura, Faith Cathcart and...

The very first post in this series started with a question: Can I eat an animal I've played tag with? At first it was merely an int...

This year's fall colors have been particularly magnificent due to high summer rainfall causing leaves to lose their chlorophyll more ...

How gorgeous can a fall day get in Oregon? Yesterday was certainly shooting for the record.

I grew up in a meat-and-potatoes mid-century American family, with the flow of beef only occasionally interrupted by a pork chop or a cas...

If you think the Occupy folks have a corner on the public imagination, you ain't heard nothin' yet. For soon the cry of "Hail...

We saw this on a grocery store shelf in Penticton and dissolved into hysterics. No beating around the bush here!

This road trip through Canada's Okanagan could easily be titled the Magical Mystery Tour if some pesky little English boppers hadn...

We live near an elementary school where more than 40 percent of the students receive free or reduced-price meals. These meals may be the ...

I don't know how it worked with the big guys like Einstein, Mozart or Picasso, but sometimes all it takes to get me inspired is the s...

Today, Halloween, is a red-letter day for readers of GoodStuffNW . Not because I'm going to be handing out extra-large bars of extrem...