Tag: Moving

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Saying Goodbye to Cascadia

Post author By davidfrancislawlor
Post date September 28, 2022

The for sale sign is in the front yard. The house is listed online. The time has come. After almost 10 years of residing in Oregon, my wife and I are packing up and moving back to California. I am starting a new job with a wonderful nonprofit organization dedicated to the scientific study of […]

Tags Ashland, Astoria, beavers, Bend, california, Career, Cascadia, Ducks, Eugene, Family, Friends, Hood River, Moving, Oregon, Pacific Northwest, portland, seattle

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Being an account of moving to Eugene, Oregon

Post author By davidfrancislawlor
Post date January 16, 2021

Screen doors slumbered, sedans snoozed, spaniels snored. Subwoofers sat silent. Trucks denied their evening driveway idles. Cell phone blathering had long ceased or else faded toward a swallowing ether. Dinner dishes washed, dried, and shelved. Homework finished and the little ones off to bed. Crickets deigned to elicit a peep. Empty windless deserts; slipper-shod ghosts […]

Tags Eugene, Moving, Oregon, Quiet, San Francisco Bay Area, Silence