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September 26, 2022

In the Lobby of the Assisted Living Center

September 5, 2022

Modest Proposals to Address the Homeless Crisis (Part 3)

August 31, 2022

Modest Proposal to Address the Homeless Crisis (Part 2)

August 29, 2022

Modest Proposals to Address the Homeless Crisis (Part 1)

August 26, 2022

A Short History of an Oregon Prom Night

August 19, 2022

Sometimes a Great Notion Writing Workshop in Astoria Oct. 8

July 29, 2022

Meanderings on the Homeless Crisis (Part 3)

July 27, 2022

Meanderings on the Homeless Crisis (Part 2)

July 25, 2022

Meanderings on the Homeless Crisis (Part 1)

July 22, 2022

Oregon Tavern Age: Summer Musings

July 20, 2022

How to Become A Writer Who Writes About the Homeless Crisis

July 15, 2022

Thoughts on My Volunteer Service

July 13, 2022

On Considering the Homeless Crisis as a Disaster Event

July 11, 2022

The Bolshevik Beavers of Bybee Boulevard

July 7, 2022

Satan’s Halftime (A Story Idea)

July 1, 2022

Frank Beavers Endorsement from Tom McCall

June 27, 2022

Frank Beavers’ Haiku Campaign for Governor

June 25, 2022

A Brief Meditation on the End of Roe

Of Dogs and Meaning

At last, a dog book where the dog doesn't die. Finally, a dog book where all dogs live forever.

In Of Dogs and Meaning's 100 pages, Oregon writer Matt Love let's his creative mind off leash to explore everything real and metaphorically canine in our culture. During this wild, meandering romp accompanied by ink stamp illustrations, Love leaves his singular marks, call them intellectual whizzes, on a vast, eclectic and entertaining range of subjects connected to dogs.

Ever see a dog go nuts one when it visits the beach for the first time? Imagine an author with supreme doggedness doing exactly that with a subject and you have Of Dogs and Meaning running through material such as as: Rescue dogs. Trail of Tears. WC Fields. Grapes of Wrath. Human dog pounds. Barack Obama. Carlos Castaneda. Dorothy Parker. Orson Welles. Michael Vick. John Wick. Richard Nixon. Hitler. Dog funerals. Steve Martin. Shakespeare. Jennifer Beals. Lord Byron. Wendy and Lucy. Charles Bukowski. Isak Dinesen. Willy Vlautin. The Odyssey. Franz Kafka. The Underdog. Sirius. Rush. God.

Love, the author of over 20 books, merges multiple literary genres, including essay, meditation, fiction, commentary and memoir to create, well...a mutt of a book!

A special limited print edition of 300 signed copies sold exclusively on this site and at select Oregon bookstores.

The book costs $20 (with $4 for shipping).

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Pioneer Pride: An Oregon City Memoir

Pioneer Pride: An Oregon City Memoir is a book published in serialized form on the Nestucca Spit Press Meditations Blog. It chronicles my growing up in Oregon City in the 70s and early 80s and features stories about hackey sack, calligraphy, football, tennis, the Promenade, journalism, salmon, crushes, coaches, text from my journals in high school, and my observing and interacting with a unique Christian sect, the Oregon City Followers of Christ Church, or the Kissers. $10-$20

The Gigging Life: Lessons Learned on the Literary Road

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The Great Birthright:
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Port-a-let (Part 1)

Thoreau on America

End of Summer Ruminations

Millard Fillmore

Fish Creek (Part 3)

Fish Creek (Part 2)

Fish Creek (Part 1)

Single Wing Formation

In the Lobby of the Assisted Living Center

Reading Dickinson with Dad

Modest Proposals to Address the Homeless Crisis (Part 3)

Modest Proposal to Address the Homeless Crisis (Part 2)

Modest Proposals to Address the Homeless Crisis (Part 1)

Wagon Wheel Park

Metal Head

A Short History of an Oregon Prom Night

Oregon Tavern Age: Game Show

Rainbow Wraps (Part 5)

Rainbow Wraps (Part 4)

Rainbow Wraps (Part 3)

Rainbow Wraps (Part 2)

Rainbow Wraps (Part 1)

Harvey the Hardware Salesman

Some More Summer Musings