What’s It All About?
Is it about Flying Free, any which way you can? Is it about Love? Or is it about Friendship? Even [...]
Wordstock: A Primer
Wordstock 2011 played up the theme "America is a story that never ends." And it was true that stories were [...]
Gold Beach, Oregon
In Oregon, the surf sounds like a wheeled suitcase knocking along uneven ground. It doesn’t roar, nor hiss.It rolls stones up the beach, almost over [...]
No-Hands Sandwich
In Portland, I decided I had to visit a French restaurant. This craving had started in Vancouver, but I had [...]
Portland
Note from 2015: This was originally a page about Portland on the 12 Cities, 1 Year website, which no longer [...]
Samoa Cookhouse: Last of its kind
Go to Samoa Cookhouse for the history, not the food. It is "the last lumber camp–style cookhouse in operation in [...]