Amanda Fritz

So glad it’s college football season! I see the Oregonian also says it’s Nacho Week. So, time to bring a reprise of my recipe from 2007 back up to the top of the…

Steve and I relished the fact that our children have a real life Uncle Sam. His parents, Edward and Emily, are Salvation Army officers, so naturally they chose Biblical names for their three…

Thanks to Fairy Blogmother Lynn Siprelle, this site is cleared of evil comment spam and ready for constructive use again. Some topics are not appropriate for my official City Commissioner site, such as…

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It was ten years ago today, December 17, 2001, when 1300 of the 1500 Registered Nurses working at OHSU walked out on strike. With the support and guidance of the Oregon Nurses Association,…

Poor quality camera-phone shot, but you get the idea. My husband and I both took Friday off work to spend some quality time together over the weekend. One of the treats he gave…

In my past two candidacies running for election to the Portland City Council in 2006 and 2008, I was working part-time in inpatient psychiatric nursing at OHSU, and fitting in campaign events between…

Received in my work In-box today (with minor edits in posting here): “My name is Sarah Doty; I’m a 19 year old student at the University of Oregon. I am contacting you because…

On Sunday May 22, instead of spending our anniversary weekend out of town with my sweet spouse (by then, of 29 years), I will be participating in the annual fundraiser for NAMI, the…

Following is a text of President Obama’s prepared address on Wednesday to honor those killed and wounded in a shooting on Jan. 8, as released by the White House, 1/12/11. To the families…