I read this in a small coastal business paper today. "The creative class of people is one of the signs of an emerging area. Then ri...

To be given the task at 11 or 12 Of filling the gas tank of the old lawnmower As the warm July sun dropped its late shadows across the oil...

A few months ago I left the city to return to the Oregon Coast. Leaving the spiraling, urban sprawl of 600,000 for a quiet fishing village o...

Land If you had told me, just two years ago, that I would be making part of my living creating scale model miniatures. . . I would have l...

The doorbell rings by itself again as it has done dozens of times since we moved in We've taken to going down, opening the door, and we...

When I was a little boy, my room, to the naked eye, looked pretty much like any 11 year old's with the sport's posters on the wall a...

(One) When I began writing music 30 some years ago, I knew I didn't want to play in a band. I didn't want to play on stage. I didn...