Every year, I tell my friends - and neighbors, and strangers, and, most fervently, myself - that this sunshine, this greening, this blossoming of the city of
Portland is a trick. I say it’s mean, cold-hearted trick known emphatically as Fake Spring, a phenomenon which draws us in year after year, luring us with daffodils and cherry blossoms. I climb up on my Dr. Bronner’s soap box and preach the dangers of optimistically starting those raised beds and staring too long from the offic (...)
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