Without getting bogged down in marital details or my own spiritual evolution, let's just say that I have experienced, first-hand, pretty much any holiday observance you could take up in the month of...
Seems that some mysterious force has decided to override Oregon's wacky kicker tax that returns money to residents in flush years instead of saving it for statewide needs.
When a household boasts Irish-Jewish lineage, a latke is more like a ritual religious object than a potato pancake. In fact, around here, calling a latke a pancake is like calling the Superbowl a game...
Our Thanksgiving tradition: The people who have toiled through the most meal-prep over the years (my sister and mother-in-law) fly from points East and West to rendezvous at'ꀦgasp...a restaurant for...
If I write 3,571.5 (or so) words every day for the rest of November (except Thanksgiving, when I have plans) I will be a novelist. I'm not going to make it, but not because I'm lazy. It's just that I...
As the sun went down on Wordstock, Portland's sprawling annual book festival, none of the event-goers were slowing down. If anything, the readers, writers and teachers who attended all four days...
Large gatherings of writers are normally not fun. More than two in a room are enough to make one wish for an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting instead, where more of the stories are true and no one asks...
