The Storefront Outreach Model
Many readers of The Old Crow Book Club have written or told me that their favorite part of the book is the appendix at the end where I list in great detail my ideas for addressing the crisis of homelessness in Oregon.
The New American Diaspora
Observations from Oregon on homelessness and checking out of American life
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Empire Chaos
5:53 Sunday Morning in Empire.
The Charleston Christian Novelist
A small, gray-bearded man wearing glasses smoked a cigarette and drank a cup of coffee while sandwiched between the ice freezer and firewood bin of the Charleston General Store.
The Rocking Recliner
Elmer and I left house at noon for our third outing of the day.
The Screamer
A homeless man, young, bearded, gaunt, bereft of possessions, stood on the road above Bastendorff Beach at 7:30 on a foggy morning, screaming profanities at the ocean.
Red Rock Crab
Elmer saw a man meandering the mud flats of Coos Bay 50 yards away and bolted his direction.
Flipping Her Off
The motorist ahead of me stopped on a stretch of The Cape Arago Highway as it entered the Empire District of Coos Bay.
A Box of 7-11 Pizza
A homeless man dressed like Vanilla Ice in his heyday stands outside my house holding a box of 7-11 pizza on a windy weekday afternoon, waiting for his girlfriend who lives next door with her wizard grandparents, pizza for a lunch date in his tent pitched in the woods a half mile from my house.
A Disfigured Face
I cruised home on Cape Arago Highway after a magnificent outing with Elmer at Whiskey Run Beach.
My Kingdom for Some Rope!
Wind tore through Coos Bay on a sunny weekday afternoon.