Shann Ray Ferch may just be the most peaceful man I’ve ever met. I don’t know the Dali Lama and I totally missed seeing the Pope during his USA Tour 2015, but Shann Ray will serve as a satisfactory, calm-centered substitute for those two gentlemen. Shann the writer is every bit as open-hearted and gracious …
M. Allen Cunningham is asking for help launching his newest book project, Date of Disappearance, a limited edition collection of ten short stories illustrated by Portland artist Nathan Shields. There are two days left to help fund the Portland author's book at the fundraising site United States Artists. A $25 pledge gets you a signed and …
I have nothing to say. I was awakened at 4:30 this morning by a dream of a salmon grabbing my lure. My rod tip went down in a series of violent tugs, and suddenly I was awake. The dreamed grab changed my heart the way a real grab does, and I had no chance of …
Lewis and Clark, wagon trains and the Gold Rush. These are likely the first generalities that come to mind when you consider the settlement of the American West. Though the Oregon Trail and madness of ’49 are players in the historical novel Tears of the Mountain, Corvallis, Oregon’s John Addiego chronicles lesser-known but consequential events and weaves …
