Portland Pulp: March Madness meets the Puppy Bowl
What? You don’t like March Madness? Join the club. The NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament is making bars and restaurants around town less enjoyable to hang out in as fans loudly cheer and make snide...
View ArticleTravel, travel: work, work, work.
This has been the theme of my summer and fall. Travel, travel: work, work, work. I’m producing a book project and conducting, filming, and interviewing subjects for it. So far I’ve only made it to NYC...
View ArticleHow to Experience Pain
I took a hiatus from my cartooning and film antics to take a few writing courses this winter. I’ve been writing poetry, fiction, and drawing. A lot of drawing. Drawing, while infuriating, is really...
View ArticleA New Home
I’ve finally taken the leap. I’m starting a writer’s group. I “whiffle-waffled” for ages about whether or not I wanted to be a writer with questions like do I have what it takes? Could I actually sit...
View ArticleMatt Nathanson’s Mission Bells
I’ve meant to blog about getting to help produce Matt Nathanson’s latest music video at the end of April with my friends at Fort Ripper. As always it was fabulous working with Marc & Karina. The...
View ArticleBird Face
I gasped when I first saw this picture. I’d never realized that my mother makes that face. I thought it was my own– influenced by the digital camera age. Or as ‘Kenzie calls it, Internet face. I laugh...
View ArticleList Essay
I want to feel better so I take his advice. Fifteen injections along my spine. It’ll help, he says. I want to feel better so I choose to believe him, even though each puncture burns as the area grows...
View ArticleSelf Reflections on a Much Improved Yoga Practice
Following my yoga teacher’s advice, I forced a smile before flipping off the driver who almost killed me on I-5. This is progress, I thought before telling myself that today might be a good day. Over...
View ArticleAllergies or Mental Disorder?
Since last November McKenzie and I have been on what I would call a food journey, accompanied by a naturopath. It has been ridiculously difficult at times and we’ve failed a lot. Attempting to eat...
View ArticleMust. Stay. Awake.
I’ve been up for over 24 hours. A couple cups of coffee, a transatlantic flight, delayed luggage and a power outage shout: MAKE SOMETHING! So… I doodled a red panda jumping another animal, also a...
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