It’s that favorite night of some people’s year – the night we turn the clocks back an hour and stop saving the daylight (and so get an “extra hour” of sleep). It’s also almost exactly 3 days until the polls close here in Oregon in the 2016 general election….[Read more]
Running Downhill
I had never heard of aerial spraying of pesticides on privately owned timber lands before. I’d been naïve until the coastal town of Wheeler notified its residents late one Friday afternoon, in the early summer of 2014, of a spray scheduled by Stimpson Lumber the following Monday morning. [Read More]
Angels from Everywhere
When I was 19, I was a razor. Intense, a zealot, and more than a little crazy. So many people told me the military was for me. [Read More]
Exposed
Like a feather
the bulletproof vest
fell off
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Bernie wins Indie vote while Dems boost Hillary
Sanders beat Trump in the Independent Party of Oregon’s primary. Clinton placed third, less than ten points ahead of Gary Johnson. [Read More]
Endless Possibilities
Like many writers, an idea comes to me first as a spark, a barely thought out concept that I contemplate and then mold into a story. [Read More]
no podemos respirar
In the wake of huge tragedy, it often seems like humanity is mired in smog. [Read More]
Show Me A Sign
I placed both of my hands on top of the engine and closed my eyes tightly and pretended to pray. I yelled “Heeeeal!” and I pulled my arms off the lawnmower as if a mysterious energy had pushed me back. [Read More]
Hollywood Dreams
I was sitting on my favorite barstool in my favorite café, reading a book and nursing my diet-coke when a heavyset man of about twenty-five walked in wearing brown baggy shorts, sloppy sneakers and a surplus army jacket at least two sizes too big. [Read More]
The Truth About Denying Your Truth
The truth about denying your truth is that it sucks. It’s detrimental and I believe the difference between life and death. [Read More]
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