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May 2023
What Would Tom McCall Do?
I picked up a newspaper the other day and read the same news story I've read again and again for the past several years: the Governor of Oregon, the…
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The Old Crow Book Club Launch Party!
I saw Donny wearing a Prince Purple Rain t-shirt and debriding a bloody wound on Jaime's left leg. She took a belt from a pint of Old Crow and howled…
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The Book Launch Party is Set!
I walked out of the bookstore on a warm Friday afternoon and received a hailing from across the street. It was Jaime and Jacob from the Old Crow Book…
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Jacob's Calls
I suspect it's not often that an author who has written a book about the homeless receives a call from a homeless man at 9:42 pm to discuss the book, a…
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The Shave
Over the past years of observations and interactions connected to the homeless of Oregon, many have become indelible: The man living in a culvert…
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Saturday Morning Homeless Report From the Southern Oregon Coast
Images from my recent trip: Reedsport: bedraggled men and women shuffle along Highway 101 pushing grocery carts and carrying bags of cans and bottles…
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Linda's Old Crow Critique!!!
I approached the front entrance to the Clackamas Book Exchange to check in with the proprietor, Linda, and see if she needed additional copies of The…
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"I Wanted to Go to Africa"
I was about to walk into my local watering hole when a man across the street yelled out to me, “Hey brother!” I'll stop for anyone who calls me…
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The State of Our Nation 5-12-82
I was searching through my personal archives the other day when I encountered a piece of writing from my youth. I wrote it in 1982 for a creative…
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Letter to the Big Boss of Homelessness
Director Dan Field: Congratulations on your appointment to Director of the Joint Office of Homeless Services. You have taken on a monumental task which…
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