The Singing in the Wood

If you want to know how to quickly get on my nerves, try ridiculing the stay at home mom.  That kind of derisive and ignorant comment usua...

If you've noticed, I tend to avoid book reviews.  For one thing, there's the obligatory summary or plot outline which often can ev...

September 11th, 2001.  The day began bright and clear in western Oregon.  I first learned of the tragedy on the way in to the office, and I ...

The Catholic Writers' Guild asked me to share this press release.  Hope you can make it!   Press Release June 9, 2011 Cont...

I am copying an obituary for my uncle Phil, which appeared last weekend in the Yakima Herald Republic.   Phil loved sailing and was an avid...

These days many of us fortunate enough to be state employees during the Great Recession feel like we're perpetually in the crosshairs fr...

We hear a lot about pursuing one's dream, but people don't get quite so excited or worked-up about letting the dream go.  There are ...