Nobody likes visiting the IRS. But when I took a trip to the Portland IRS office, I discovered the Edith Green-Wendell Wyatt Building—a remarkable structure full of vast, sweeping spaces and empty corridors. Luckily, I’d brought my camera, so my trip to sort out my 2018 taxes was not a complete waste of time.
Read moreVia San Diego
One recent trip to San Diego – the smells and sights of a city with whom, I have a complicated relationship.
Read moreHappy hour with my dear friend Dan Lowinger.
Some coincidences are so incredible, it makes you wonder what else is going on out there, you haven’t stumbled into yet.
Read moreIs the field actually empty?
A series of photos I took recently, and a short story about visiting Hancock Field Station, in Eastern Oregon, and how, if we look closer at what we previously thought was empty or dull, we might find something surprising.
Read morethe Zen art of Hippo Hardware
We returned to Hippo Hardware one last time to redeem an $11 store credit. I brought my camera to snap pictures of every little thing in the store and remember how, even in a city as rapidly changing as Portland, there are still some genuinely beautiful pockets holding their corner.
Read moreNight Ride, Portland Ore., 05/05/2019
At night, the whole city turns on its lights. Eyed disapprovingly by passing motorists, and hungrily by circling prowlers, there’s a gazillion fabulous pictures to be had—if you’re brave enough to stand in one place long enough to get your levels right.
Read moreDancing Lessons
Stone Arch Bridge, Minneapolis
While in Minneapolis for a brief, busy weekend exploring new apartments and job prospects, a mid-April blizzard hits town and I miss my flight home.
Read moreLloyd Center Mall
I have never been very current on fashion, so my trips to the mall usually included eye-opening updates on trends. Apparently, judging by the three Russian figure skaters, there was some huge fad for czaritsa chic going around.
Read moreHow I learned to get over myself and fall in love with malls
I love malls. This is an essay on how I came to fall in love with malls, accompanied by a series of pictures I shot in January, of Portland’s Lloyd Center Mall.
Read moreOmens
Witnessing the Winter Solstice, it's not hard to imagine why its first observants wanted commemorate the occasion. It must have been scary as hell, a moon like that, and without the lights of the city to dilute its fullness (as they did here). Will the year's crops fail? Are we all going to die? Or, does this foretell good luck? Is this the year my wife will finally buy me that Ferrari I've always wanted?!