The for sale sign is in the front yard. The house is listed online. The time has come. After almost 10 years of residing in Oregon, my wife and I are packing up and moving back to California. I am starting a new job with a wonderful nonprofit organization dedicated to the scientific study of […]
For college baseball in Oregon, it was the best of times, it was the worst of times. When I moved to Eugene in 2013, the state’s two major college baseball programs were in very different places. The Oregon State University Beavers had recently won the national championship in 2006 and 2007. Inching their way toward […]
The day’s final meeting had concluded. Following hours consumed with discussion of Puget Sound’s water quality, Clean Water Act intricacies, and prospects for litigation, my coworker and I fancied a beer. Thus, on a cloudless Friday afternoon in Seattle we ambled a block or two over to the pub, settled at a table, and ordered […]
Screen doors slumbered, sedans snoozed, spaniels snored. Subwoofers sat silent. Trucks denied their evening driveway idles. Cell phone blathering had long ceased or else faded toward a swallowing ether. Dinner dishes washed, dried, and shelved. Homework finished and the little ones off to bed. Crickets deigned to elicit a peep. Empty windless deserts; slipper-shod ghosts […]