I looked into my mother’s faded eyes last night

And saw so many things …

I saw the sorrow and the frustration and her fervent longing to go home, as my father has suggested so many times since her incarceration nearly two years ago. “If I could… Read full post »

I hate to say it, but I told them so. Actually, I didn’t — and now I’m kicking myself for my shrugged-shoulder silence.

Back in the early 1990s, when the Internet content mill was really beginning to juice up, some Big Brains at my company determined it was a good… Read full post »

Thursday’s Occupy Portland demonstration drew a broad swath of people downtown calling for social, political and financial transformation in America.

Led by supporters of the Occupy Wall Street movement that’s spreading across the country, the local event attracted thousands to a n… Read full post »

“Life is a series of meetings and partings. That is the nature of it.”

—   Kermit the Frog in A Muppet Christmas Carol

I’m looking at the ring finger of my left hand, and I’m smiling.

For one thing, I’m wearing a plain yellow-gold and w… Read full post »