David Lebovitz, an American baker living in Paris, posted this morning on his FB page about the Borders book store closing.  There is no doubt about it:  this latest development in how the book industry is dealing with the challenges of digital verses dead trees is a...

My last post here was about how I perceived the movement of cultural anchors in my life.  From my point of view, they were either being hoisted or relocated:  some gone, some moved.  There were enough of them moving around the first time I posted that I felt it was...

When I got my Bachelors degree at 50, one of my final projects was a photo essay called: "story-telling itself."  I believe that stories tell themselves when we get out of the way and let them flow. Recently, I have been keeping track of this particular story that is...

I decided to move to Portland, OR after a wonderful visit in 2004. I fell in love with the Pacific Northwest and Portland, in particular. A friend of mine suggested that I come and visit after a conference I was attending in Denver. Because Denver is much closer to...