About half shot
Eric MortensonOregon, family, journalism, bad golf, history, politics, writing, cooking, gardening. dogs and cats, and probably some other things.
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It's true, I'm a swell fellow.
Like sand through the hourglass, so are the days…wait…that’s water, which also pours well. Actually this is a fountain in Japan.
People ask me all the time. “Eric,” they’ll begin, “you turned out to be a swell fellow despite our ear...
"Red hair and black leather, my favorite color scheme..."
Someone attached this scene to the inner side of a guardrail along the bluff that overlooks Oaks Bottom Wildlife Refuge in our SE Portland neighborhood. We’ve got a couple of these displays within two blocks of us; they’re fun stuff...
Oh, that Sunny Sun.
This is my favorite photo of Sunny, taken several years ago. Dignified, polite, and ever vigilant.
I am compelled to write about Sunny. Her time is running out, and I’d best talk about her now because I may not be able to when the e...
A bit of backyard archeology.
This collection of glass and what looks like a broken dinner plate came from a single posthole I dug the other day.
Our house in Southeast Portland was built in 1909, and I suspect that for several decades — before urban garbage col...
The Seven-Wood Next Time
I’ve said this before: You should go read James Baldwin’s “The Fire Next Time” again. Or read him for the first time, if you haven’t yet encountered his essays on America’s original sin, as it’s come to be called. Baldwin’s writing more tha...
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Pacific Northwest writer who worked 37 years as a reporter at Oregon newspapers. I write about Oregon, family, journalism, politics, dogs and cats, bad golf, gardening, cooking, running, reading and maybe more.
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