Off to Portland --

To deliver a somewhat used cookbook with pink-speckled pages from all the beets sliced in its presence to this broad -- the loveliest little sprite with whom I share a fondness for chaise lounges and, at one point if not still, Donna Hayward-inspired skirts and sweaters.



I will deliver the cookbook, frolic in the misty woods, wear clothes that for the first time in almost a year will be within hugging reach of their original owner, and eat a donut or two. And maybe go to a strip club.