I have to say goodbye to a friend today. I’ll miss him. Saying goodbye is tough. No one does it correctly. There are often awkward pauses. Fidgeting. People resort to swapping old stories. Living in the moment is too uncomfortable; […]
Usually I don’t get my vacation from writing until late July and early August. It was a special treat this year when Zack, my editor at The Forest Grove News-Times was nice enough to grant me some “vacation” in mid-May. […]
Let it be known, Pacific University junior golfer Max Bonk is a scientist, not a farmer. He grew up in Hawaii. He doesn’t own a tractor. He calculates, analyzes and experiments. He does not enjoy wading through knee-deep grass in […]
A few months ago I posted, in a quick blurb along with a video, that Chad Ochocinco amazes me. He is a skilled wide receiver on the field and gifted in the art of entertaining outside the lines – as […]
(Note: The material in this post came in part from a staff editorial I wrote for the Barometer in November 2009) As managing editor of the Barometer, one of my responsibilities was to moderate comments on our website. Through College […]
Over the past decade, athletically speaking, Oregon State has held Notre Dame in a headlock. Or a full-nelson. It’s not that the Beaver are always better, they are just better at the right moments. Maybe it’s even luck. The Beavers […]
Here are a couple of Oregon State Football Promos from KBVR put together by former studio production manager Tom Boykin. You are about to experience an Ace Ventura moment…
Macbooks are adorable, aren’t they? Who wouldn’t want a Macbook? They come in the brightest and most eye-catching of colors; they boast a solid yet sleek, sexy design; and they have, on average, a longer battery life than my (stupid) […]
Okay, forget Beyonce for a moment. April showers bring the opportunity to stay indoors. Long hours slaving over a room-temperature keyboard staring at a .css stylesheet (while failing to come up with anything original) eventually led to a faster, quicker […]