Skip to content
  • About Naomi Fast
  • Publications & Readings
  • Collaborations
  • Blog
  • Poet’s Muses
  • Flickr
  • Link Tree

Naomi Fast

The Writing Life

Tip Jar

This post exists simply to announce, I made a tip jar! It’s down there at the bottom of the page, the mason jar with pink hearts in it. Please don’t feel obligated, but if anyone’s so inclined, you can now leave me a tip. Keep in mind though: this will only encourage more writing and […]Read Post ›

Ode To My Lost Emails

On my list of to-do’s last Friday: posting this phone video I took of a pretty spectacular, and also intimidating, bird sighting last week. But what should’ve taken 15 minutes has taken a week. First I realized I needed to upload the video to YouTube or Vimeo, rather than just upload it to the blog. […]Read Post ›

How about that Portland weather? Er, heat dome?

On climate hustle, climate hope, and taking the climate action heat Dedicated to bicycle advocates worldwide; my dad; and the green Nishiki he gave me rides on before I could pedal I’ve been wanting to say something that’s probably ten disparate posts, but first I’ve got to untangle it all. This is a going to […]Read Post ›

I don’t know who needs to hear this (okay, I do)

Yesterday, surveying the empty toilet paper aisle at my local Fred Meyer, I was reminded of this Bible verse I was once taught, “Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns… Can any one of you by worrying add a single hour to your life?” One […]Read Post ›

Library of First Lines

I’m tripping over novels again. I confess: I took one, but didn’t leave one, at Little Free Libraries everywhere, kind of a lot. Add to that the many $5 all-you-can-stuff paper grocery bags full of books with eye-catching covers & persuasive blurbs, hauled home from Friends of the Beaverton Library book & media sales. (Do […]Read Post ›

On Wildfire & the Comfort of Thousand+ Year Old Trees

— this post is dedicated to my cousin’s daughter, with appreciation & hope “The five elements (water, fire, wood, metal, earth) are not always equally predominant; the four seasons make way for each other in turn. There are short days and long; the moon has its periods of waning and waxing.” —The Art of War […]Read Post ›

Bicycle Fruit

I My high school chemistry teacher, Mr. Jarl, used to hypothesize the involvement of “god, or whoever you believe in,” as he taught the mysterious phenomena of attraction and architecture of chemical bonds. I loved his phrase and all it evoked. And I love, with abandon, those unexplained events—maybe chemical, maybe magnetic, maybe metaphysical—that have […]Read Post ›

Soft Launch, Soft Forest Rain

This year—2017—I sensed, early on, it’d be the kind of year that would go best if I gave the horse her head & let her run. I was starting a full-time job, snow had stalled the Pacific Northwest, we were about to have this new… president. So I loosened the reins. I left my stash […]Read Post ›

Oregon My Oregon

Yesterday was the Holiday Cheer book fair at the Oregon Historical Society. I was there with my book of poetry & Portland photography, and I can’t believe, after nearly 20 years in Oregon, more than 10 of which were in Portland, that I’d never been to OHS! Please go sometime, if you haven’t been—it’s a […]Read Post ›

Riveting Fiction

Rediscovered these first lines to a novel I once started: “It’s hard to know how I got here, where here is, or even how long it’s been. I guess the only thing I know these days are the facts.” I had a pretty good laugh when I came across that little tidbit in my old […]Read Post ›

Posts navigation

← Older posts
Follow Naomi Fast on WordPress.com

Blog Post Categories

  • Collaborations
  • Commentary
  • Essayer (in the French sense of the word)
  • Living CarFree
  • Long reads
  • Loving earth
  • Op Ed
  • Philosophy
  • Photography
  • Poetry
  • Political writing
  • The Writing Life
  • Transportation Critique
  • Uncategorized
  • Videography
  • Videos & Documentaries
  • Walkable Bikeable Counties for all!

Archives

  • November 2022
  • June 2022
  • May 2022
  • July 2021
  • January 2021
  • March 2020
  • February 2020
  • October 2019
  • July 2019
  • June 2019
  • February 2019
  • November 2018
  • September 2018
  • August 2018
  • July 2018
  • June 2018
  • May 2018
  • March 2018
  • November 2017
  • December 2016
  • January 2016
  • December 2015
  • October 2015
  • September 2015
  • April 2015
  • February 2015
  • January 2015

Conversation & Comments…

PNWPhotoWalks on Why Live Without Bicycling – U…
nf on Why Live Without Bicycling – U…
PNWPhotoWalks on Why Live Without Bicycling – U…
PNWPhotoWalks on The Flashing Yellow Arrow…
I don’t know w… on Library of First Lines

Search this site:

To get new posts in your inbox, enter your email & click the button below

Join 39 other subscribers

Donate to the Tip Jar


Tips warm the heart! Much appreciated

DONATE to TIP JAR

Photos on Flickr

bikes&cherries foreverI Love JoySage AdviceJust wait.How to Get a Jag
More Photos

Upcoming Events

TBA

Books:

PORTLAND LIGHT - Post-Industrial City Poems & Photography © 2015 Naomi Fast (Update: Out of Print)

Meta

  • Register
  • Log in
  • Entries feed
  • Comments feed
  • WordPress.com

Follow Me On Twitter

My Tweets
Create a website or blog at WordPress.com
  • Follow Following
    • Naomi Fast
    • Join 39 other followers
    • Already have a WordPress.com account? Log in now.
    • Naomi Fast
    • Customize
    • Follow Following
    • Sign up
    • Log in
    • Report this content
    • View site in Reader
    • Manage subscriptions
    • Collapse this bar
 

Loading Comments...
 

    Note for readers in EU: Cookies