A few of my favorite shots from an unusually sunny midwinter jaunt to the Oregon coast.
Three photographers prepare to shoot the sunset near Haystack Rock.
Found art.
More found art.
Enjoying the day’s end.
Month: January 2022
A New Essay of Mine Is Online: How an Oregon Basketball Coach Taught Me to Pay Attention to the Little Things in Coaching, Teaching and Life
(photo from Oregon Quarterly)
I have a new essay up online–in Oregon Quarterly, the University of Oregon alumni magazine. It’s about the Oregon Ducks and going to college and coaching basketball and teaching and learning to focus on the little things in life that make success possible. You can read it here.
Two New Posts on WritingtheNorthwest.com: The Pacific NW Through the Eyes of Rudyard Kipling and Ursula K. Le Guin
Over the past week I’ve put up two new posts on my recently launched WritingtheNorthwest.com website, one by me and one by a former student of mine, David Naimon, the host of the popular podcast Between the Covers.
My post is on a visit Rudyard Kipling made to Oregon in the 1890s, when he fished for salmon on the Clackamas River and visited a salmon cannery. You’ll find what he had to say about each of them by clicking here.
David Naimon’s post talks about the importance of Ursula K. Le Guin‘s connection to the Pacific Northwest (and especially Portland) to the writing of her science fiction classics. You can read that one here.
The Myth of the “Other Place” in Films Set in Oregon
A great new guest post just went up on WritingtheNorthwest.com. It’s by my former student Michael Schepps and explores the myth of the “Other Place” and the Hero’s Journey in Films Set in Oregon. Check it out here.