This week we didn't head “up into the mountains” to watch a football game. We headed up THE mountain to watch a game. It’s just one...

Before we even left home this Friday, we knew we were going to see some history made at the football game. The St. Helens Lions were...

We had planned to visit Lakeview earlier this season, but that game was moved to Brookings-Harbor, so let this be a lesson to everyone...

It was another cloudy, hazy, foggy, smoggy, smokey day as we headed south out of the valley and up into the hills. We got off the main...

For week five of the 2022 season I made the trip to Mapleton. It’s a trip I’d already made with Mrs. Ednold during the weinerpus season,...

It was hard to believe it was already week four of the season, and it was even harder to believe that Mrs. Ednold had decided she had...

Friday night in mid-September and it was just the two of us: Me and The Bucket. Mrs. Ednold was stuck at work, but The Bucket never...

I’ve been wanting to go to Lakeview for a long time. If there’s one thing I like even more than watching waterfalls, it’s viewing lakes,...

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...