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Inside the Red Doors

The 5th Annual Oak Street Art Show offers celebration and a much-needed dose of inspiration for one young man. It was sometime in the winter of 2013 that I found myself caught in a [Read On…]

THE MAN I NEVER MET // Part 3

The Final Installment of “The Man I Never Met” Chapter 2 – Cont. I never did like big crowds, I said to Walter, but I still couldn’t shake him. Bruce Walter was [Read On…]

Las Vegas Stripped

A Travelogue of Photos and Text On our way from Tucson to Sacramento on a road trip last month, Sean Ongley and I found ourselves with two nights in Las Vegas, at Paris Hotel, at [Read On…]

THE MAN I NEVER MET // Part 2

Chapter Three — Monday What was I thinking? The mud from the river would act to preserve the body, not break it down. I had not been careful enough. It wasn’t until [Read On…]

The One That Got Away — I Hope

How I drove through the matrix on the way to Los Angeles. She called when I was in the car with my Mother, with a trunk full of groceries, two years ago. [Read On…]

THE MAN I NEVER MET // Part 1

Hexagram 16 is named 豫(yù), “Providing-For.” Other translations include “enthusiasm” and “excess.” Chapter Five — One Week Later Time’s up, said the guard. She took out a lipstick and pushed up the [Read On…]

Show and Tell

Featured Image by Beatriz Albuquerque There are worse ways to spend an evening than hearing Bob-Bob tell the story about the time he brought a cow’s eyeball to school, and the kids [Read On…]

Aqualair

Illustration and short story by Jen Scholten I fell into a pool when I was young, as I fell into so many bodies of water in my youth. I was born on [Read On…]

An Equal Send-Off

The Portland Thorns played their last home game for 2015 to a sold-out arena. Two hours before a Thorn’s or Timber’s game, the national anthem is rehearsed at Providence Park. I live three blocks from the [Read On…]