From Los Angeles to Portland, Oregon
Part 1 - Last Days in Los Angeles
January
- August
Part 2 - New Days in Portland, Oregon (link)
August- December
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Above:
Mid-August 2002 at our going away party in Franklin Canyon
park. Photo by Larry Herbst |
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Left:
Leora and our daughter above the San Fernando Valley,
while hiking at the Tree People, in the first months of
2002.
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Right:
Friends eating cake at my son's birthday party. He shares
a chair (right) with his best buddy. These are two guys
who really understand "Rescue Heroes." |
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Left:
Can a person become so cute that she explodes? Watch out
world. |
Right:
Burning the last pieces of bread on the day before Passover,
Erev Pesach, 2002, with my son and a friend. Someone
asked me if I was angry in this picture. No, I'm not
angry at all! I'm just lighting a match to burn the
last bread before Passover starts.
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Left: Reunion of high school friends at Steve and Becky's
house, at a party Steve held for Dave Rabb our athletic
coach - Standing, from left, are Craig Lebow, Dave Rabb
(the guest of honor), Eric Pinczower, Bret Wagner, Steve
Levan, and in front, Russell Levan, Evon Hochstein, Miles
Hochstein and son. Dave Rabb played an important role in
our lives 25 or more years ago, particularly around Junior
High school. It was a real pleasure to see him again, still
making the same damn jokes and still cracking us up with
them, together with our children now. What an irrepressible
and great guy! |
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2002 is gone, but this is what I said about it when it
was here.
"2002
is here. We are in the thick of it, living, growing,
shrinking... whatever it takes. We'll let you know what
it all meant if we ever figure it out. For now, I'll just say that raising children is like
wading through molasses - it's
sticky, slow and exhausting,
but nonetheless sweet." (2002).
Above:
Miles Hochstein with daughter in a former animal cage
at the old Los Angeles zoo, watching for alien spacecraft,
or something.
Above:
Leora and daughter at our going away party in our favorite
Los Angeles Park, Franklin Canyon, August 2002 - Photo by
Larry Herbst
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Above:
Leora and children, February 15, 2002, at the Tree People,
Santa Monica mountains.
Above-
Last day in Los Angeles, with my children and Anna Tagnoli's
kids. Behind me, the house is empty. Photo by Anna Tagnoli.
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Above:
Moving Day, Los Angeles California, August 2002 - By the end
of the day, I was a little tired.
Part 2 - Portland,
Oregon, August- December 2002
Troper-Hochstein
Family
Moves to Portland, Oregon
Begins
New Life in PDX
Above:
We stand on the steps of our yellow and purple rented
house in Southeast Portland on a sunny late summer day.
We finally got around to the official "we are here
now" photo, three weeks after our arrival.
Above.
Me and daughter sit in one of my favorite parks in the
world, Mt. Tabor, PDX, August 28, 2002, shortly after
our arrival.
Above:
Our sunny kitchen, Portland, Oregon.
Above:
Although I found it a little odd to be a student again,
I took a few courses in Medical Informatics at Oregon
Health and Sciences University.
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Above:
You know who, you know where, in transit from Los Angeles
to Portland, August 2002. Photo by Mateo.
Above:
Leora and our daughter, Thanksgiving Day, November 28,
2002 at Eric and Gail's house in Seattle.
Above:
My daughter reading the Declaration of (Joyful) Dependence,
November 28, 2002.
Above:
Developing a relationship with my new digital camera,
late December 2002.
The months passed quickly from August to December of
2002. In about October 2002 I wrote
"How
do I feel about living in Oregon after two months?
Good, in every way. I love this place and my life
here. What an improvement. One nice thing about Portland
is that I don't really need the above driver license
very often - I actually take the bus and use my bike
to get around. It is as if we have moved to a civillized
country from an uncivillized backwater. Public Transportation
- what a concept!" (2002)
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Above:
Reason Number 381 to Move to Portland, Oregon - More beautiful rusty
school busses. December 2002 |
