After 2,500 blog posts since 2004, it made sense to showcase some of the favorite and most popular posts on the site. Here’s the Top 25: Priorities The Tokyo Toddler – An Oregon Family Travels Japan A reason to do…
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Over 2,500 Posts Since 2004
Live the world. Start here. In 2004, kind of on a lark really, I published my first post on a Typepad blog called Antsaint. Thinking back, it’s hard to remember all the motivations that went into it. Mostly I wanted…
Posted in Journal
10 Minutes
Tonight I am at the monthly meeting for Willamette Writers. My duties as co-chair as done for now, and I am listening to Eric Olsen talk about his creative process and that of other writers he’s known, all with varying…
Saturday Barn Light Writing
It has been a challenging week. You know the type I’m talking about: many of the things you wanted to do got totally derailed by things you had to do. So Jodie, wonderful wife that she is, worked with me…
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Priorities
On Friday afternoons I watch my son while my wife works. At this point in Connor’s 14-month-old life, that usually means he spends most of the time napping on my back in a carrier while I get some work done,…
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Monday Morning Cooking Break
Yogurt, nuts, bread, croutons & chili Slogging through a snot-machine cold this morning, my son made it clear he was in need of a dad snuggle prescription. So while my wife was getting ready I popped him in a carrier…
Now to reply to Tom Robbins
Tom Robbins is one of my favorite authors, and I’ve also examined his works for writing elements to bring to my own craft. So last year I wrote him a letter: Thanks for your time, your consideration, and for the…
Posted in Journal, Postcards from the Rucksack Universe
Happy New Beer
Ah, sweet new year. A month in to 2013, and with it come visions of the smells of brewing and the sounds of bottles opening. Oh wait, I keep forgetting that bottling is too hard for most of you. Just…
Tagged with: craft beer, eugene beer, eugene craft beer, eugene homebrew, homebrew
Posted in Craft Beer, Eugene, Oregon & Pacific Northwest, Food and Cooking, Homebrew, Journal
Posted in Craft Beer, Eugene, Oregon & Pacific Northwest, Food and Cooking, Homebrew, Journal
Happy Holidays, Let’s Do Something Cool
Oh sweet, sweet holiday season. Or, as I often like to think of it, eat-all-the-chocolate-you-want season. Let’s-do-something-cool season. For starters, quick housekeeping note: I’m on vacation, so the site and Twitter will be quiet through the end of the year.…
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Remembering & Celebrating Joe Kasik
Joe Kasik, 1944-2012 Many in the Eugene area have an extra sadness right now, after the passing of a friend, musician and all-around good man, Joe Kasik. After a long fight with cancer, Joe passed away on Nov. 8, 2012.…
Posted in Eugene, Oregon & Pacific Northwest, Journal
