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Saying Goodbye to Cascadia

Post author By davidfrancislawlor
Post date September 28, 2022

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 […]

Tags Ashland, Astoria, beavers, Bend, california, Career, Cascadia, Ducks, Eugene, Family, Friends, Hood River, Moving, Oregon, Pacific Northwest, portland, seattle

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Oregon Coast Memoir: Blue Skies, Warm Sunshine, Family, and Friends

Post author By davidfrancislawlor
Post date February 16, 2021

Dusky gloom holds court daily, refusing to yield but for a handful of colorless hours. Scant daylight accompanied by a thermometer declining a meaningfully rise. Christmas and New Year’s celebrations long passed. Wintry doldrums rest heavy on the psyche; emerging at daybreak from the blanketed cocoon grows increasingly burdensome. At this station on the annual […]

Tags Family, Friends, Oregon, Summer, Sunshine, Wakonda Beach, Waldport