Running away from problems never seemed to work, but it does help give you some perspective sometimes.
The double lie, and her being caught, is part of why I always loved loved loved writing Dana and Samantha.
This is the house I moved into when I moved to Portland (within the month before this strip originally ran). Nice to see it again. Oh, and Beulahland was a coffee shop/ pub a couple blocks away.
The thing about the Pacific Northwest is that its overcast an rainy 8 months of the year, but the rainfall is less than in New England. So mostly when it is raining, it in fact “doesn’t count.”
[Spoiler alert] It was a bit surreal writing this, because I had just MOVED to Portland, so i was sending Bruno back to Massachusetts, but knowing I’d then bring her back to this spot.












