When the chaos of life – or its mind-numbing routines – becomes too much it makes sense to go somewhere with less cement to come back to the simpleness of being a living animal. On the way to the coast we stopped at a store at the crossroads of the highway and the river, a…
The best writing advice I’ve ever read – which they’ll never teach you in college or in writers’ workshops – is that there’s no such thing as writer’s block. Why? Because you can always keep the pen moving across the page. Even if you have nothing to say, even if all you write is “I…
As someone interested in local/sustainable food options, I hear about GMOs a lot. Ever since moving to Jackson County, I’ve heard the discussion grow to an impossible-to-ignore din. Trying to understand all of the issues related to the genetic engineering of crops has soaked up a bit of my time. This is my attempt…
A little bit dangerous. That’s how all good recipes should be. It starts with cashew butter. You know, like peanut butter, but with cashews, a nut which happens to come from a deadly fruit. But more on that later. When I’m feeling ambitious I use my cuisinart food processor to make my own nut butter.…
It wasn’t the best idea to go for bike ride in Southern Oregon last Saturday afternoon. This brilliant observation came to me as I stood ankle-deep in the middle of Bear Creek, bent over to dip as much my head as I could in the cool water. My partner Hannah and I were only three…
