Need A New Game? Name Your Favorite Words.

Published in The Ferndale Record-Journal, October 28, 2009
Language fascinates me. It always has.
Some words delight me more than others because they’re either fun to work into a sentence, or they amuse me in some way.  Below are a few words that fall into this category:
Cupcake – The words ‘cup’ or ‘cake’ alone don’t thrill me, [...]

It’s All About The Food

Published in The Ferndale Record-Journal, October 14, 2009
My childhood home was always interesting. There was plenty of emotion, lots of fun and laughs, some sorrow, nurturing, moments of pain. Probably like a lot of other families. The odd thing is, and most especially at this time of year, I can’t stop thinking about the food. [...]

The Bizarre, Beautiful Mix That Is Family

Published in The Ferndale Record-Journal, September 23, 2009
Not long ago, on a small stretch of beach along the central Oregon coast, I gathered with the people that have known me the longest.
For a couple of days we caught up with the old and plunged into the new. We welcomed family members we’d never seen before, [...]

Trifecta

Not long ago, on a Sunday night when life did not feel warm and fuzzy, I drove to a nearby bay. I parked my car so I had a view of the sunset, dined on a baked potato I brought along (one of the ultimate comfort foods), wrote down feelings that were spilling over, [...]