Hey folks, I hope that your summer is going well! I’ve been working with some great writers in coaching sessions and manuscript consultations, and will now take August off to focus exclusively on my own projects and to absolutely glut …
I’ve been volunteering with Street Roots since April. They publish a weekly newspaper sold by people experiencing homelessness and poverty. They do important work to provide a source of income to people who need it, but it’s also a terrific …
The cognitive dissonance of our current collective nightmare is getting to me. It’s not that I had my head in the sand about the rise of fascism. I’ve done a lot of organizing against it and made a lot of …
I sent the following email to my teaching, consulting, and coaching mailing list this morning. I suspect that it might interest a number of you, as well, so am sharing it here. If you are on that list and also …
I took a walk the other day to Broadway Books to pick up my friend Mindy’s new book. As I set out, I was thinking about how welcome I’ve always felt walking into that bookstore, both under the past ownership …
Portland walks: North on NE 20th Ave to NE Broadway Read more »
I’ve been doing a lot of silent screaming lately. Maybe you have, too. Things in the United States are bad, overwhelmingly so, and are bound to get worse before we either pull ourselves out of this authoritarian pit or fail …
This is the second post in a series of walks around Portland, Oregon. I walk through the city every day anyway, so I figured…why not bring you with me? Once a month, or maybe a bit more often, you’ll get …
This is the first in a series of walks around Portland, Oregon. I walk through the city every day anyway, so I figured…why not bring you with me? Once a month, or maybe a bit more often, you’ll get a …
Fuck. I mean… FUCK. In 2016, I was pretty sure that Trump would win. This time around, when it was still Biden running, I knew that Trump would win. But when we switched to Harris, I had hope. Real hope. …
This has been a difficult year for me for a number of reasons, not least of which was the impending doom I felt whenever I considered a rematch between Biden and Trump, and how shaky our chances seemed of staving …