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or: How I learned to stop worrying and love the Dole.

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Hi, I'm Ruth.

I'm a writer and journalist from Melbourne, Australia, but in June 2010, I chucked everything in and moved halfway across the planet to Portland, Oregon.

Join me as I try to make sense (and cents) in a town full of hippies, hipsters and hicks.
Contact

ruth @ stumpdinpdx.com
Mini Blog

Read more at my mini-blog, Stump'd Notes:
- Summer Camp ads from the NYT magazine26/02/2012: I find Americans’ “Summer Camp” fascinating. My childhood school holidays were typically spent at the beach with...
- How to run a successful Kickstarter campaign5/02/2012: I’ve written about Kickstarter before. The Boy pledges to a lot of projects. I pledge to some. Usually when there’s so...
- Things I'm doing at the moment...26/11/2011: It has been a while, hasn’t it? Reading Townie by Andre Dubus III Reading about other people’s dysfunctional childho...
Categories
- Australia
- Food
- Melbourne
- Moving
- Music
- Politics
- Portland
- Project America
- Rag of the Week
- Roadtrips
- Sport
- USA : WTF?
- Work
Recent Comments
- German777us on Food carts of Melbourne (all four of them)
- Gabbaz2002 on Food carts of Melbourne (all four of them)
- Kate37768 on Project America: The peanut butter and jelly sandwich
Good things from Australia
Good things from Portland
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