Hey there, I hope your summer is off to a good start! I know we’re barely into July, but it’s already time to start thinking about fall writing workshops. First up, something new for me: I’ve joined the faculty of Fall fiction workshops Read more →
My most recent interview with a Street Roots vendor didn’t result in a profile for the paper. The vendor profiles are intended to introduce readers of the paper to the people who sell it, to give people experiencing homelessness and Portrait of a Man in Crisis Read more →
Mayor Keith Wilson of Portland, Oregon, ran for office on a platform of ending unsheltered homelessness. That sounds great, doesn’t it? A wonderful goal. Based on his actual policies and actions, though, what he really meant was end visible homelessness. Housing First Read more →
I was thinking that I might take some photos on my walk tomorrow to show you Portland in all of its overcast autumn glory, but you don’t need to see images of our tree-lined streets and our community gardens and War-Ravaged Portland Read more →
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 Fall Novel Workshops Read more →
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 Thoughts on the walk home after volunteering Read more →
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 Cognitive Dissonance Read more →
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 Workshops, manuscript consultations, coaching, and the angst of promotional emails in politically fucked-up times Read more →
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 Portland Walks: utility Pole politics Read more →