The new book Brave on the Page, released today, features interviews with 15 Oregon authors, one of whom is me. Thank you, editor Laura Stanfill, for producing such a fantastic collection, and for including me! Here’s more info: Brave on the Page: Oregon Writers on Craft and the Creative Life will be released on Monday, October…
BendFilm Fest heading our way in two Twenty years ago, I interviewed Frank Nutter, then and now president of the Re affordable-health.info Assn. weeks! Here”s what I wrote about my favorite event for Travel Oregon.
My post on The Sylvia Beach Hotel”s newest room on the Travel Oregon blog. I”ve been visiting the Sylvia Beach Hotel since it”s beginnings 25 years ago. I”ve casinondal honeymooned there, family gathered there, watched my mother and stepfather get married there, written book chapters and essays there, read books and drank beer and napped…
August 30, Nature of Words, 224 NW Oregon, Bend, 6 p.m.
Very much looking forward to signing books at Klindts”s Bookstore in The Dalles this Saturday July 14 from 11 – 1 p.m. Here”s the bit about this awesome place from my book “Day Trips From Portland: Getaway Ideas for the Local Traveler.” Klindt’s Booksellers. 315 East 2nd St.; (541) 296-3355; www.klindtsbooks.com. Given that you are…
I’ve said this before, but man o man, the last 18 months have been quite a ride! July 1 marked the first anniversary of the publication of Chance of Sun: An Oregon Memoir. The day was also my first on the job as the editor of Central Oregon Magazine. That’s Editor with a capital E.…
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An interview with me by Laura Stanfill, literary blogger, posted today. She does this really cool seven questions series, and I’m honored to be included! As well as very flattered that she called Chance of Sun “surprising, resonant and deeply moving.”
Night in the Life: Seven Hours on Bend’s Thin Blue Line in The Source Weekly Seriously some of the most fun I’ve had in ages was riding along with Officer Juli McConkey of the Bend PD on a night shift recently. Not only is she an awesome person, her job is kick ass…
Hiking in a Desert Paradise in Travel Oregon Magazine. After our Steens and French Glen adventure, we looped back home via Hart Mountain, where we soaked in the natural hot springs with not a single soul around. Then we dropped off the back side and enjoyed freaking incredible views of the Warner Valley, Poker Jim…