Day Trips From Portland on Oregon Lakes and Rivers: Spokes on a Wheel Oregon Lakes and Rivers Travel and Recreation Magazine editor Kyla Merwin Cheney wrote a lovely story about day tripping from Portland to Oregon”s rivers featuring my book, “Day Trips From Portland: Getaway Ideas for the Local Traveler.” The sun is (basically) out! Let”s…
My article Family Friendly Resorts is out in the Alaska Airlines Horizon Air Edition. Happy Summer Resort-going!
The bookstore rep said the turnout was twice normal, they sold every copy of Day Trips From Portland they had in the store, and they invited me back for my next book, Chance of Sun, to publish Aug. 1. Even better were the long-lost family members and friends who showed up! I think I might…
I’ll be reading from and signing my “Day Trips From Portland: Getaway Ideas for the Local Traveler” books at Powell’s on Hawthorne, 3723 SE Hawthorne Blvd., Portland, Oregon, this coming Monday the 20th at 7:30 p.m. Would love to see some friendly faces! We’re going out for a drinkipoo after! In other news, I…
The Summer Issue of Oregon Quarterly Magazine, now available in print and online, features my essay, “The Friday’s Trilogy,” which won the Northwest Perspectives Essay Contest this year. The essay is also a chapter in my upcoming book, Chance of Sun: An Oregon Memoir. A girl comes of age in Oregon in the 1970s and 80s,…
Mom, where are you going tonight? To a restaurant downtown. That’s boring. Where do you think I should go, Boo? London. Mom, I told you, we have to a-gree, not un-gree. Mom, I love you. I love you to the lamp, and then to space, and then back to the floor. But I…