Vacations

Measuring a Vacation in Deep Breaths

Adventure

Climber Remembered as "Life Artist"

Small Mine Owners Feed the New Gold Rush

Affection

Sweet Nothings, Set in Stone

Archaeology

Iraq's Marsh Arabs, Modern Sumerians

Art

Scrimshaw Artist
Keeps Etching
Tradition Alive

Assuring Light

Rest Assured ...
and Follow the Light

International Virgin Pilgrim Statue - Our Lady of Fatima

Attitude

Worthy of Consideration ~~ Being Bored

The Worldwide Bane of Travelers; 'You Shoulda Seen It When ..."

Tarnished Heros depress one, yet great people inspire gossip

The Scarlet U: Wear it with Pride 

An Excerpt from The God Factor:  Inside the Spiritual Lives of Public People

Love of Books Unites People Worldwide

One Man's Mission - Roger Wendlick spent 18 years searching for rare books on Lewis and Clark

"Tales Out of Oregon"

The Book -
New Bio-Optic Organized Knowledge Device

Book Reviews

The Man for All Seasons: St. Thomas More

Living in a Land of Mythic Proportions: The Desert

Defying Oregon's Unwritten Rule on Umbrellas

Houseboats: This dreamboat really buoys her life 

It's Shopping, not entertainment, so leave the mall and find your true self at a secondhand store

When a hotel has magic, Dreams Can Come True on Beach in Newport

Christmas

The Christmas Spirit

One Solitary Life

 
Collectors

Collectible Can Fill Hole in Your Life

Comparisons

- The Shore -  Rarer than peanut butter on a jelly fish

Composers

Franz Schubert's
Ave Maria

Conversion

Are Converts The Best Catholics?

International Virgin Pilgrim Statue - Our Lady of Fatima

Dialogue

Voices Vanish Amid So Much Shouting

Dignity

Dignity Defined

Seminaries and Puzzled Professors

Excess

Always Available:
The Slavery of Overconnectedness

A Devout Woman's Take on Y2K: COOL IT, PEOPLE

Friendship

Old Friends Never Really Change too Much

Future

Stories Not Yet Told

Dirk Winter:  Sowing Big Plans at Oregon Garden

Genealogy

Remembering Gerald Garth Johnson

Is he generous to a fault?

Gifts

A Night to Remember 

Grandeur 

The Redwoods: Once seen, leave a mark or create a vision that stays with you always

Finding Poetry on the Pioneer Trail - A teacher and a poet follows in the footsteps of Lewis and Clark

Overgrown Grave Site Breathes Life
Into State's
Expedition History

 
Home

Failed Sale can put your House in Order

Illustrations

www.mygiftcounts.org

Learning To Say Ole the Slow and Steady Way

Light

Keepers of the Light

Living Life!

Getting Off a Last Shot
at Living Large

Magic

Castle of Chaos

A Family's Legend: King Hussein and Dad

Memories of Flying Braids and Frying Eggs

The Secret of Bread

Music

Squeezing out the Tunes!

Strummable Toys Make Seriously Fun Music

Mystery

You Are a Mystery as Deep as the Sea

Nature

Thoreau's View Tame For Today

Opinion

What Can We Do
To Stop This?  

Memorial Day 

Perseverance

Today Well Lived

Too Bad;
Deal With It

Personalities

Jack Palance -- Healthy & Fit at Every Age

A Spirit That Doesn't Flag 

Profiles

International Virgin Pilgrim Statue - Our Lady of Fatima

Blind Juror's Presence Brings Insight to Murder Case

Born in China, Immigrant's life began in America

Dogdom's Shaggy, Unsung Stars

Poetry

Sea-Scapes

Send in the Clowns and the Children

Predictions

Some crystal balls sparkle ... some bounce

Slow Down, Don't Move So Fast: Our Pace Has Costs

Remembering

POPE JOHN PAUL II
1920 - 2005

William F. Buckley
1925 - 2008

Reverie

The Primal Lure of Firelight

Meet You At The Well in Moldova

Soldier's Dad:  Cross Bears Such Sacrifice

Saints

Mother Teresa's Dark Night

The Whiz Kid Next Door: Michael Li of Portland

 September 11, 2001

September 11, 2006

Service

LES is usually more!

Personal Concierges
do your legwork like clockwork 

In the Presence of His Holiness ~ The Dalai Lama

Barack Obama -
US Senator

Sports

Basketball:
Portland Trailblazers
Damon Stoudamire's grandmother would have been proud

Golf - The Green is Always Greener at Pebble Beach

Success

John Greven -
Carefully Crafted Success 
 

For Slow Adopter,
High-Tech Wonders are Something to Behold

 
Time

In the Glory of October Sun, A Time To Frolic, Dream, Laugh

January One, Two Thousand A.D.

You Meet the Nicest People Riding the Public Bus

Travel

A Pilgrimage to Sacred Ground

A Year In the World - A rich person's dream? Not necessarily

Bergen Norway: Edvard Grieg's Home
in 'Troll' Country

Cork, Ireland: The Gift of Blarney

Southern France: Provence -
Nobody Told Us About the Scorpions

Visit to a Roman Cell: Summons Reflections on Peter and Paul

Travel 

Bretton Woods,
New Hampshire USA: The Mount Washington Hotel -
Elegance in a warm
grand style

Maine USA: On a visit to E.B. White's farm, we find the animals gone, but the place is still enchanted

Wall, South Dakota USA: Ted Hustead and Wall Drug

 Vacations

How to Have a Stellar Vacation

Measuring a Vacation in Deep Breaths

Angler Draws Strength from the Willamette

What is Class?

Wonder

You Go Out in the Evening - and look at the sky and see the stars

Writing

Considering - The many sides of E-Mail

IF Revisited:
(With apologies to Rudyard Kipling)

The Bradbury Chronicles: The writer calls himself a "Collector of Metaphors"

Youth

Father's Ode to Victoria:
Write Home

The Writer's Journey
 
 

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