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Quarantine Crows
As the crow flies: “In a direct line. Without any detours caused by following a road.” Having lived in a city for over a year, I’ve come to detest this idiom and believe that the crows Charles Dickens wrote about and the ones frequenting my neighborhood are of a completely different species. There is nothing…
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Keywords and Questions Lead to Twitter Engagement
How hitting the right Twitter keywords can go wrong. Meyers Leonard Tweets me back and the Sacramento Kings acknowledge my existence.
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360 Free Chicken McNuggets
At the time of publication, Blazers fans could have had 360 Chicken McNuggets.
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My Day in Court
The loss dealt by the speed trap in 2016 on my mind. The paper trail depicting my innocence laid out. I was ready to even the score with Multnomah County.
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Finding a Home Through Craigslist
Craigslist is mostly normal people looking to offload a couch or something, but its depths know no boundaries.
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To Be All Its Name Implies
A section of this essay ran as a guest column in the Paradise Post. I’ve never been to hell and I base the choices in my life with hopes that I don’t end up there. For many, the November 8th morning drive from Paradise to Chico was a trip through literal hell, as flames from…