The Scenic Route
Bill LascherA digest of digressions, tangents, side quests, and other unhurried explorations of how where we've been informs where we are.
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He was Noah
Portland, Ore., United States, February 2, 2026 — Eight years ago, today, my dog, Noah, ate his first taco salad.
Minutes earlier I’d proposed to my then-girlfriend, Andrea. It was an unseasonably warm Friday night. We’d decided to take N...
I went places and said things
Portland, Ore., United States, and Hong Kong, May, 2025 — I began this edition of The Scenic Route in March, but no matter how much I wrote, everything got in the way of finishing it.
Given how often I seem to write about delays for The Sc...
I Guess We Wanted it Darker
ASHLAND, Ore., 2016 — Last fall I wrote about newly-resonant songs from my writing playlist. No sooner had I sent that newsletter than I started thinking about the end of 2016, the beginning of 2017, and another playlist I put together then...
Brickbat
HERE, THERE, AND EVERYWHERE, The Universe, All Months, All Years — Once we had mix tapes. Then mix CDs. Now we have playlists.
Earlier this month, as I finished writing an essay I was reminded of that unique satisfaction that comes from cu...
Slow, but not too slow
PORTLAND, Ore., United States, August, 2024 — I published the previous installment of this newsletter when my new book was about to come out. It’s now been out for four months, yet I’ve written about it here far less frequently than I expec...
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