IRONY OF IRONIES   Cannabis is a flourishing industry here in Oregon. There are farms and greenhouses galore and more cannabis retail outlets than hardware stores. They provide a lot of jobs and I’ll be looking for a job soon. I thought I might take one in the business (as we referred to it back in the free-wheeling days of defying prohibition). So I applied for a permit and paid a fee and got investigated and irony of ironies was found certified safe to be employed. My hesitation has been that the business has gotten complicated. There are so many strains of cannabis available, and a p ..read more

THE KEYS ARE CALLING     GOODREADS ASKED ME the following questions for the benefit of its readers. I thought I’d share my answers with you. HOW DO YOU DEAL WITH WRITER’S BLOCK? It is not a problem these days. I have amassed a vast repository of material upon which to draw. My approach to a story long or short is that I am prompted by a meaningful moment or a significant passage in my life and the explication of its meaning becomes my destination. Getting there I’m free to wander. I banish my censor and open the gates and whatever flows through me goes on the page. My first draft i ..read more

“Cut out the heart. Remove the brain. Only leave the bones. I will need the bones.”     Anonymous   ..read more