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January 30, 2023

The Short History of an Oregon Seventh Grade Football Season (Part 5)

January 9, 2023

The Short History of an Oregon Seventh Grade Football Season (Part 4)

January 6, 2023

The Short History of an Oregon Seventh Grade Football Season (Part 3)

January 4, 2023

The Short History of an Oregon Seventh Grade Football Season (Part 2)

January 2, 2023

The Short History of an Oregon Seventh Grade Football Season (Part 1)

December 28, 2022

A Short History of Christmas in an Oregon Logging Camp

December 21, 2022

Oregon Tavern Age: Trumpian Hallmark Movie

December 16, 2022

Takin’ it to the Streets Hallmark Homeless Christmas (Part 6)

December 14, 2022

Takin’ it to the Streets Hallmark Homeless Christmas (Part 5)

December 12, 2022

Takin’ it to the Streets Hallmark Homeless Christmas (Part 4)

December 9, 2022

Takin’ it to the Streets Hallmark Homeless Christmas (Part 3)

December 7, 2022

Takin’ it to the Streets Hallmark Homeless Christmas (Part 2)

December 5, 2022

Takin’ it to the Streets Hallmark Homeless Christmas (Part 1)

December 2, 2022

Some Initial Thoughts on My New Job

November 24, 2022

Oregon Tavern Age: Pre Christmas

November 21, 2022

Gold Beach Thanksgiving (Part 9)

November 16, 2022

Gold Beach Thanksgiving (Part 8)

November 14, 2022

Gold Beach Thanksgiving (Part 7)

November 11, 2022

Gold Beach Thanksgiving (Part 6)

November 9, 2022

Gold Beach Thanksgiving (Part 5)

November 7, 2022

Gold Beach Thanksgiving (Part 4)

November 4, 2022

Gold Beach Thanksgiving (Part 3)

November 2, 2022

Gold Beach Thanksgiving (Part 2)

October 31, 2022

Gold Beach Thanksgiving (Part 1)

October 27, 2022

Elizabeth Bishop and the Homeless of Portland

October 20, 2022

Assisted Living Observations

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).

Special price for purchasing two copies: $30 (with $5 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:
An Oregon Novel

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Waiting at the Airport

Charging

Bob Cratchit’s EBITDA

Coffee Shop Ruminations

Meditations on My Writing