You are no different than asters that fall dead
in sleep, reemerge each year strong and new. [Read More]
The Genocide of the American Indian, and Their Refusal to Die
So what happens to a person or group when their identity is wiped from the book of history? [Read More]
Stumbling Stones
There’s a way in which water flows.
It knows where to go without directions,
understands how to travel with ease. [Read More]
Time to Turn the Clocks Back
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
[Read More]
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]
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