UPDATE: Slept a bit better, for longer periods of time in between waking up with some peripheral neuropathy humming through my lower ...

My lovable lefties, splitting the bill for our impromptu Mother's Day Brunch at my favorite breakfast spot in Portland, the Bijou Cafe...

Here's the advice, straight from H.R.H. Jill Conner Browne, THE Sweet Potato Queen, given to me on April 15, 2015, by way of a...

I took this sweet photo earlier today while on a Mother's Day walk with my sons, Leland and Lamont, and Leland's girlfriend Rache...

Click here for a trip to City Daily Photo , transporting you around the world every day. The omelette and potatoes I had ordered. A sin...

Click here for a trip to City Daily Photo , transporting you around the world every day. On Saturday, February 16, I waited patiently f...

A creative young man on a mission, that's Josh Hailey. Since I supported his successful Kickstarter campaign, I've been patientl...

Cafe, that is, downtown Portland at SW 3rd and SW Pine. My table where I waited right about 7:30 a.m. Thursday, March 15, for my favorite re...

Waiting to be seated, Milton and Kay graciously posed for a photo. The Bijou Cafe was Mama's favorite breakfast eatery in Portland and...

...at mine and Mama's hands-down favorite breakfast spot in Portland, the Bijou Cafe. My favorite on the menu--next to the buttermilk pa...

The four of us woke up Friday morning, knowing that, although we'd have the Buick by the afternoon (Leland's driving it to school we...

... so we walked a block from the apartment and boarded the 17 bus to the Bijou Cafe, site of our first ever breakfast in Portland, an ultra...