Cribs, Breast Pumps and Baby Stuff: Oh My!

Recently Mary and I made our first trip as expectant parents to Babys R Us.
Here’s how it went:
I discovered that cribs cost up to $500 bucks! Hell, you can buy a decent couch for that much!
After my sticker shock lessened (I don’t believe it will completely go away), I spied this cool-looking, high tech containment [...]

Photo Galleries

Neither Mary or I are professional photogs by any stretch, but I’ve started posting pictures from our various mini-photo shoots on our Picasa public web galleries. We just enjoy taking pictures! Mary is mainly into artistic shots and action ‘photojournalistic’ shots. I’m more into scenic photography.
I just added one the other day from an afternoon [...]

The Ghost of Iron Creek Campground

The Cispus River, near our campsite.
To borrow and mutilate the popular writer’s cliché, it was a dark, sober night for me up at Iron Creek Campground during July of 2002. I was joining a group of several good friends from my former employer on one of our camping extravaganzas. Iron Creek Campground is set [...]

I’m a Lottery Winner!

That makes two of us in the Portland area.
I’d rather have his jackpot though.
I won a staggering $7 in Powerball last week. I’m down to $6.35 today, as I bought a Snickers bar from the candy machine.
In the 16 years that I’ve sporadically played the lottery I’ve amassed a fortune of $27..this win and a [...]

We’re Having a Baby!!

The truth can now be revealed! We’ve known since January, but wanted to keep quiet about it until now. We told our parents yesterday. Knowing our two families, word has probably spread throughout all of Washington and Oregon by now! Needless to say, we are ecstatic and thoroughly excited for the arrival of our first [...]

Cheating Death on Kamloops Lake

The heat was oppressive the day I nearly died.
 
The terrain in the area was much more desert-like and barren than you’d expect from British Columbia, with miles and miles of sand, rock and cactus. We were out on Kamloops Lake, in a canoe that was sinking in a rapid, relentless current. Before filling with water, [...]

Might Clyde Do the Electric Slide?

Portland Trailblazer Legend Clyde “the Glide” Drexler is set to cut a rug on ABC’s mysteriously popular reality show, “Dancing with the Stars.” In my younger days I practically worshipped this man for the successes he helped bring to my team. He possessed the ability to gracefully and powerfully slice through defenses and score, even [...]