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SANTIAM PASS: FIRE AFTERMATH PHOTO ESSAY

October 15, 2021 by

A Santiam Pass fire isn’t finished when the last flames are out. There’s the environmental clean-up. Then restoration. They bring out the manpower and big rigs for the work. Imagine what it looked like during the fire based on what it looks like now. Is terrifying too much? I don’t think so because it jumped […]

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Wellness Luxury: Feeling Good For Doing Good Again

September 8, 2017 by

To do good you don’t have to feel good. If you do it’s a wellness luxury, an expression I just made up. Google wellness luxury. This isn’t that sort of post.   Take mental health for example. Nothing makes any difference to you? No one cares about you? Feeling earful about the future? Feeling sad […]

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Jenny Forrester Widens The River, Brightens The Sky

September 6, 2017 by

  On a night of ash falling across Portland, Willamette Writers gathered inside the Old Church. Wildfires be damned, they came and listened to Jenny Forrester talk about her burning memoir, Narrow River, Wide Sky.   I’ve never been more prepared to hear an author talk it out. First because my exchange student came with […]

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