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 […]
I shouldn’t complain, so I won’t. My wife and I just spent a brilliant week on the Big Island of Hawaii in mid-December to celebrate her birthday. Warm, sunny weather, exploring black sand beaches, swimming with sea turtles, downing mountains of poke, and quaffing rum-soaked cocktails with little umbrellas. It was everything a Hawaiian vacation […]
The moment I walked into the office I was breathlessly accosted: somebody called this morning and said that there’s a dead whale on the beach by the Prom! I nabbed a pen and a pad of paper, swiped a camera off the shelf, pocketed a couple of rolls of film, and hopped in my car. […]
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 […]
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 […]