The current issue of Portrait of Portland Magazine includes a travel story I wrote titled “Seeking the Light,” which features the gorgeous work of Bend photographer Mike Putnam, and details some wheres and hows to take hikes in Central Oregon to capture similar shots (whether on the camera or just the mind’s eye.) Hooray for…
My story “Wine-Paired Picnics” is in the April issue of Alaska Air Magazine, Horizon Edition. It was rough duty sampling fine Oregon wines and eating delicious complimentary foods in a gorgeous outdoor setting, but somebody had to do it.
Read about my cross country skiing adventures in “Into the Woods” in Ski Oregon, page 12
Awhile back, I promised I’d post this essay, which was published in Chicken Soup for the Soul: The Magic of Mothers and Daughters this year. It’s all about the antics which ensued when Chicken Noodle and I traveled together when she was two. Seems especially appropriate given our recent mother-daughter quest to Hawaii (which was…
Read about Jerry Scdoris in my profile of him for Oregon Quarterly
My take on House on Metolius, a lovely resort in Camp Sherman, for Travel Oregon
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 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 to the…
August 30, Nature of Words, 224 NW Oregon, Bend, 6 p.m.