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Astoria
November 4, 2017
Topless to the Clearcut
August 19, 2017
Meditations Overlooking Youngs Bay 2
August 17, 2017
Meditations Overlooking Youngs Bay
June 12, 2017
What I Miss About Teaching
June 1, 2017
The Chill Tank or My Ten Days on the Boat in Jail
April 21, 2017
Brownsmead Dreaming
April 9, 2017
On the End of My Classroom Teaching Career
April 6, 2017
Hummingbird Healing
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Bonnie and Clyde Files
May 2, 2019
Bonnie and Clyde Files Launch (4)
May 1, 2019
Bonnie and Clyde Files Launch (3)
April 30, 2019
Bonnie and Clyde Files Launch (2)
April 29, 2019
The Bonnie and Clyde Files Launch (1)
November 5, 2018
A Great Dog Notion
August 6, 2018
Dogs Raining (Reigning) in My Mind Part 13
August 2, 2018
Dog Sanctuary Ruminations
May 25, 2018
Sanctuary Back Yard Musings
May 22, 2018
Letter to Clyde
May 7, 2018
A Walk With Bonnie
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Corona Virus Thoughts
November 3, 2020
Corona Virus Election Thoughts
October 26, 2020
Corona Virus Thoughts #18
October 9, 2020
Corona Virus Thoughts #17
October 2, 2020
Corona Virus Thoughts #16
September 29, 2020
An Essay on America (Part 2)
September 28, 2020
An Essay on America (Part 1)
September 25, 2020
Corona Virus Thoughts #15
September 9, 2020
Corona Virus Thoughts #14
August 31, 2020
Corona Virus Thoughts #13
August 20, 2020
Pandemic Writing Assignment
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Driftwood Forts
April 16, 2020
Fortitude
January 7, 2020
Fort Questions
December 12, 2019
Fort Sober
November 12, 2019
Three Fort Haiku Sunday
October 1, 2019
A Fort Fight
September 10, 2019
Fort Kelp
August 26, 2019
Citadel Fort
July 22, 2019
Deep into the Destroyer’s Domain
July 15, 2019
A Mystery Fort
July 11, 2019
Sunday Forts!
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Fiction
December 9, 2020
Linda’s Christmas Grove (Part 2)
December 8, 2020
Linda’s Christmas Grove (Part 1)
December 6, 2020
Psilocybin Santa (Part 4)
December 5, 2020
Psilocybin Santa (Part 3)
December 4, 2020
Psilocybin Santa (Part 2)
December 3, 2020
Psilocybin Santa (Part 1)
October 22, 2020
Jack Blake: A True Rock and Roll Tale (Part 8)
October 21, 2020
Jack Blake: A True Rock and Roll Tale (Part 7)
October 20, 2020
Jack Blake: A True Rock and Roll Tale (Part 6)
October 19, 2020
Jack Blake: A True Rock and Roll Tale (Part 5)
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Lost and Found
April 20, 2017
Lost and Found 7 / Losing Friends, Finding Friends
April 17, 2017
Lost and Found 6 / Back and Forth
April 12, 2017
Lost and Found 5 / The Parable of the Lost Sheep
April 10, 2017
Lost and Found 4 / Improvisation with Monk and Coffee
April 4, 2017
Lost and Found 3 / Drifting the Oregon Coast with Bob Dylan
March 26, 2017
Lost and Found 2: Rescuing Dogs, Reality and Metaphor
March 25, 2017
Lost and Found in Our Lives; the Beginning of My Journey
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NSP Correspondents
August 21, 2018
Artifacts Upon Artifacts–A Poem (March 2010)
November 24, 2017
The Legend of Drain Gravy Part 2
September 11, 2017
Bonnie and Clyde Files 21
June 24, 2017
NSP Correspondent / Matthew Sproul / Twofer
June 7, 2017
NSP Correspondent / Matthew Sproul / Cross Current
April 24, 2017
NSP Correspondent / The Oregon Shot / Gerry Lewin
April 24, 2017
NSP Correspondent / Bill Hall / Oswald West and Tom McCall Meet in Heaven
April 24, 2017
NSP Correspondent / Earl Mohr / A Writer’s Womb
April 24, 2017
NSP Correspondent / Matthew Sproul / GAME TODAY, 4:00 p.m.
April 24, 2017
NSP Correspondent / Jane Endres / Nature Communicates
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NSP Meditations
September 29, 2021
Leaping Coho
September 27, 2021
Oregon Tavern Age: Exhaustion and Laughter
September 24, 2021
Friends of Meditations (Heather the Writer)
September 22, 2021
On Self Righteousness and Perry Mason
September 21, 2021
Oregon Tavern Age: And So It Goes
September 20, 2021
Hail to Ace Hardware
September 15, 2021
Sunday Morning
September 14, 2021
Oregon Tavern Age: Vampire Pat
September 13, 2021
Of Not Walking in Rain
September 10, 2021
My New Literary Endeavor: The New American Diaspora
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Of Walking in Rain
April 12, 2019
Notes for a Rain Novel
April 3, 2019
Of Thinking in Rain
March 11, 2019
Thoughts While Driving in Rain (again)
February 26, 2019
When the Weird Turn Pro
February 25, 2019
Driving In Sunday Rain
February 15, 2019
Rain, Rain, Rain
January 21, 2019
Rain Falls…
January 7, 2019
The Reconsideration of Rain
December 10, 2018
Rain and a Nativity Scene
November 21, 2018
Rain, November, 21
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Oregon Beaches
September 8, 2020
Country Music Morning Fog
September 4, 2020
The One-word Trucker Outreach Writing Project
August 5, 2020
On the Hieroglyphics of Gull Tracks
August 4, 2020
Caves, Cliffs, Erosion and Shit Going Down
June 19, 2020
A Tribute To Alfie the Dog
May 31, 2020
A Modest Proposal in the Spirit of Tom McCall to Reopen Coastal State Parks
May 20, 2020
The Drummer
April 30, 2020
Roasting Cans and Bottles
April 23, 2020
A Weird Chainsaw Story
April 16, 2020
Fortitude
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Oregon Coast_History
August 29, 2020
On Vortex I in 1970 by Nicholas von Hoffman
August 28, 2020
Letter to Governor McCall in Praise of Vortex
August 27, 2020
Dr. Cameron Bangs at Vortex I
August 26, 2020
Vortex Voices
August 25, 2020
Tom McCall at Vortex I
August 24, 2020
On Vortex 50 Years Later
August 24, 2020
Happy 50th Anniversary Vortex I
July 22, 2020
Recent Sights Along Highway 101
May 31, 2020
A Modest Proposal in the Spirit of Tom McCall to Reopen Coastal State Parks
May 25, 2020
He Cared
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Oregon Tavern Age
July 14, 2021
Oregon Tavern Age: Masturbation Video
June 30, 2021
Oregon Tavern Age: Keep on Rockin’ In the Free World
June 11, 2021
Oregon Tavern Age: Shattered
May 20, 2021
Oregon Tavern Age: Camping Plans
May 6, 2021
Oregon Tavern Age: A Man in Crisis
May 5, 2021
Oregon Tavern Age: Shit Detector
April 29, 2021
Oregon Tavern Age: Convoy
April 23, 2021
Oregon Tavern Age: Rotary Phone
April 22, 2021
Oregon Tavern Age: The Mooning
April 13, 2021
Oregon Tavern Age: Steve Prefontaine Smiling
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Pioneer Pride
March 18, 2020
Pioneer Pride: Part 15-Dump Run
March 18, 2020
Pioneer Pride: Part 14-Journalism
March 16, 2020
Pioneer Pride: Part 13-The Promenade
March 16, 2020
Pioneer Pride: Part 12-Coin Flip
March 15, 2020
Pioneer Pride: Part 11-Creative Writing
March 14, 2020
Pioneer Pride: Part 10-Rum Night
March 14, 2020
Pioneer Pride: Part 9-The Little Red Book
March 11, 2020
Pioneer Pride: Part 8-Bus Ride
March 8, 2020
Pioneer Pride: Part 7-Calligraphy
March 6, 2020
Pioneer Pride: Part 6-The Legend of Don Harrison
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Poetry
May 26, 2020
Panning During the Pandemic
January 18, 2020
Planet of the Apes Jello Shots
January 15, 2020
Of Thinking In Rain
January 13, 2020
Australia is the Size of Oregon
January 6, 2020
A Gift of Agates and Meth
November 21, 2019
Hacksville (A Hack Poem)
November 12, 2019
Three Fort Haiku Sunday
November 6, 2019
Nov. 3, 2019
November 4, 2019
The Humboldt Club
October 13, 2019
Images From Reedsport
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secret coast radio
March 31, 2020
Secret Coast Radio 16
February 26, 2020
Secret Radio Radio 15
January 29, 2020
Secret Coast Radio #14
January 22, 2020
Secret Coast Radio 13
December 17, 2019
Secret Coast Radio #12
November 18, 2019
Secret Coast Radio 11
November 8, 2019
Secret Coast Radio 10
September 27, 2019
Secret Coast Radio 9
September 4, 2019
Secret Coast Radio 8
August 19, 2019
Secret Coast Radio #7
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Sports
November 13, 2018
On Football (Part 2)
November 12, 2018
On Football (Part 1)
October 24, 2018
Patio Thoughts
July 7, 2018
Changeover: A Tennis Tale (Part 5)
July 6, 2018
Changeover: A Tennis Tale (Part 4)
July 5, 2018
Changeover: A Tennis Tale (Part 3)
July 4, 2018
Changeover: A Tennis Tale (Part 2)
April 12, 2018
Tennis On My Mind
November 23, 2017
Remembrance of an Oregon Thanksgiving Football Past
June 7, 2017
“Soul Train Rollin!”: Paul K and the Greatest Get Down Block Party in Oregon History
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Writing
September 14, 2020
What to Write About
August 20, 2020
Pandemic Writing Assignment
August 19, 2020
Excerpt from Meth Town, My Upcoming Western
August 17, 2020
Blackberries in Literature
August 3, 2020
Some Thoughts on My Writing Process
July 28, 2020
A Little About Lark Jameson, Writer
July 27, 2020
Introducing Lark Jameson, New Oregon Writer of Erotica
July 15, 2020
Lines that Arrested Me from Camus’ Notebooks (1942-1951)
June 30, 2020
Igniting New Writing via Richard Hugo Workshop in Astoria Sept 19
June 22, 2020
Dangerous Writing
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