His Subtle Speech

A gentle nudge at the fork of the road

Boxing Out

A Note

The Spitter

Spare the frogs but not the scorpions

The Island

Where I’m from

The Eloquent Silence of It

Sometimes you don’t need to fill the gaps

His Listening

A celebration of a rare and extraordinary thing

The Bulletin Board of Your Head

Who has a ponytail at 70?

Crush

The way she flowed into that bus

Cinnabar

In praise of the One O’Clock Fox

Friday Morning Pop Quiz

(There will be no extra credit)

Writing in Australian

Notes on some stunning Antipodean authors

Shoshana

The estimable Cynthia Ozick

The Brilliance of Foolishness

Is laughter holy?

The Five-Kilometer Race

A note on the seething insanity of running

Entrepreneurship

A war story

Józef Korzeniowski: A Note

Perhaps the greatest writer ever born in Ukraine …

A Note on Cricket

From a land down under

Hoop

A hymn

Address Unknown

An open letter to my brother

Writing Oregon

My state’s literature, in all its brilliance and depth

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