This is us

This is a photo of our family that my husband took for my campaign. I enticed the kids to participate by promising I would use it for our annual Christmas card letter, instead of making them pose again. L - R: Maxwell (freshman at Princeton University), Ali (junior at Wilson High School), Jet the Pet on the lap of some woman who's had way too much caffeine, Steve (professional psychiatrist, amateur photographer), Luke (junior at Western Oregon University).

This is us, too:

These are some of the folks who worked as staff and/or volunteers on my campaign for Portland City Council, outside our office in the Buckman neighborhood.

"This is us" entries will be a recurrent theme on this blog.

Portland A - Z: "This is us" means everyone.

You have cat???? You OK,

You have cat???? You OK, then!

We have three of them,

We have three of them, litter-mates adopted from the Humane Society. I didn't try to get more than one in the photo... y'know, the ol' herding thing. Hard enough to get five people all sitting still and not blinking.