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Last Saturday I woke up to a lovely view from our apartment of the Olympic
November 4, 2026
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Last Saturday I woke up to a lovely view from our apartment of the Olympic
In the last post I wrote about the Denny Party, they had reached Portland, Oregon,
In past Octobers, I’ve written about haunting books—which I define as stories that linger after
Nothing is certain but death and taxes. I was going to write about taxes for
On the fourth Wednesday of the month, I usually write a post with a historical
On that trip that my mother made to our home in late November or early
Babies and dogs are good listeners. Even when they aren’t paying attention, it is really
The reason most settlers went to Oregon was because they could claim free land. In my
Once the emigrants to Oregon survived the plains and the Rockies, they still had to
My daughter is visiting at the moment, and she brought her dog Langley. I am
In an earlier post, I mentioned situations where I was confronted by the fact that
I recently started using Scrivener, a software program designed for writers. I’ve used WriteWay Pro off
In the summer of 1989, when our daughter was four and our son seven, we
Throughout 1848, fortune-seekers streamed into California, even though the U.S. government had not yet acknowledged
The Willamette Valley is wet. That’s what I remember most about the winters when we
One summer day about 38 years ago today, I thought my career would come to
I’ve written before about the time that Santa came to visit my brother and me
My story, My Son Made Me Tweet, will appear in Chicken Soup for the Soul:
I mentioned last week that I left home for college about the time my sister
My father recently made a huge road trip through the Western United States. One of