A wise man once told me “Nothing is as it seems, but everything is as it should be”. I’m not really sure what that means, but it sounded...

When I’m king of the world there are going to be a lot of changes around here. One of the first things I’m going to do is make Labor Day...

Somewhere on a college campus in Forest Grove, Oregon there is a plaque with my name on it. It used to hang in the basement of Walter...

Though published in 1957, Jack Kerouac had actually written On The Road in 1951. For six years he tried to find someone willing to...

I suppose not everyone out there is a big Kerouac fan, and that’s ok. And some people may not even know who he was, which really isn’t...

As I sat in my office on the stiff wooden chair behind my desk, the information leapt out at me like a hideous clown from a rusty, old...

The story you are about to read is true. None of the names have been changed because the only innocent one was me (you might say...

I have a friend who’s a little younger than I am, who was telling me about how everyone in their grade school class would hurry to finish...

It’s been a while, but I haven’t forgotten. When I wrote the first part of this story a year ago I was planning on a timely follow-up. ...

It’s already February again, and that can only mean one thing. Well, that’s not true. I guess it could mean lots of things, now that I...

Here’s a little something to think about before we get started: If you were hiring a musical act and could only judge the applicants...

This is a story about Oregon’s oldest recorded murder case. It wasn’t the first murder; there had been a few others. But for technical...

As we entered the month of December there was just one final game to be played in all of Oregon high school football. The Central...

As seems to be the case each Championship Saturday, this Saturday was packed full of more sporting events than anyone could possibly keep...

This week’s choice of games was made easier by the fact that there were exactly two teams playing games at their home campus, one of...

This week was the second round of the playoffs, and we made our way to Canby to watch the Cougars host the defending state champion...

Another week, another progressive president. This time I was headed to Kennedy High School in Mt. Angel to watch the Trojans host the...

For the last week of the 2021 regular season we headed north, or True North, as people in the Portland neighborhood of St. John’s call...

This Friday night we drove over to the coast to the little town of Waldport. The town was named by settlers who had floated down the...

The fun thing about attending these football games is that each of them is different. Every school and every community has their own...