I happened to have participated as a National campaign staffer for the 1988 Presidential Race. Yes I was paid (although not so well), and yes it was a full-time job. We thought we were high-tech with our two fax machines — one for incoming faxes and one for outgoing faxes. I spent most of my [...]

The Loin After a very pleasant walk around my beautiful Portland neighborhood, I found a letter that I wrote to my friend Cat just after I’d moved to San Francisco. Not sure why I never sent it — although it might have been a first draft: Dear Cat, …My life seems to have taken on [...]