Archives

Ring the bells that still can ring Forget your perfect offering  There is a crack in everything That’s how the light gets in                                      –Leonard Cohen Get [...]

The State of the State We live in scary times. It’s probably relative. The problem is, we know so much more than we did before good old cyberspace rolled in and took over our lives. For [...]

February/March newsletter The cruelest month “February is the cruelest month”…or so says Emma Golden in my second novel, The Difficult Sister. For me, as well as for Emma, it [...]

The State of the State We’re settling in for fall around here. Brilliant color, cold morning walks, baked apples. Most of the wineries have finished harvesting grapes and are now processing [...]

The other day before work I returned to Lower Hillsdale Heights. It’s been a while since I’ve been there. Emma’s little bungalow still looks the same–modest, trim, a part [...]

A good old time was had by all at the Chehalem tasting room during the annual Wine Country Thanksgiving. Sorry I’ve been so long getting back to all of you, but things continue busy around [...]

Last Thursday the move from my home in Lower Hillsdale Heights was accomplished–something I’d been building toward since late last August when I realized it was time to sell and [...]

OK, here I am in a cozy condo in Lake Oswego. I didn’t originally plan to transition so quickly, but here’s the deal. I’d wake up in one place with no underpants and go to bed [...]