Yachats

Usually if someone says “you’re history” they mean you are no longer applicable to what’s going on. It’s like “you’re history” doesn’t really have a nice ring to it. The Webster’s dictionary definition is “an account of what has happened in the life of a people, country, etc”. So you’re a memory, a used to…

Wednesday always reminds me of the song Stealers Wheel sang “Stuck In The Middle With You”. Since Wednesday is in the middle of the week we approach it several ways, most popular is the term “Happy Humpday”. I’m going with that call since we are now beginning to work our way to the weekend and…

The faint sounds of festive music coming from an ice cream truck caught my attention. I hadn’t been in the city for a long time, and the music was bringing the memories back. At sixteen years old and fresh from my junior year of high school, my world changed after I answered an ad in…

Having lived in Yachats for many years I can tell when summer is approaching even though the weather hasn’t been what you’d call summer-ish but trust me it is on its way. How do I know not being a weatherman or an omnipresent wise man? Watch the Yachatians and you too will know summer is…

When we get to Friday every week I’m excited! It’s my favorite day in that the weekend is right in front of us with a multitude of possibilities! So like a kid I get excited and today my mind takes me on a musical journey with Gloria Gaynor singing her hit “I Will Survive”. Folks…

If someone came up to you and told you to “go fly a Kite” you might wonder if it was in jest or were they telling you to get lost. Or perhaps they just meant for you to ask them why? At any rate in Yachats you’re going to be hearing “Go Fly A Kite”…

Yachats has a population of approximately 836 people give or take the season. A bit less in the winter,  a few more in the summer but nevertheless it’s a small town or village as most people refer to it.  Naturally in the summer Yachats is a popular getaway destination for many and the special summer…

Man, it’s almost noon and it’s almost as dark as night from the rain and clouds! If I wasn’t a native Oregonian I’d be packing up and heading for sunny weather! However, I ain’t going nowhere as the song goes! Nope it’s this time of year right before Spring when it gets really funky so…

From the house she could barely see the store and motel through the cloud of dust whipping across the deserted highway. She looked at the lawn covered with a fine layer of grit. It had died along with the flowers. Nothing was growing thanks to the hot wind and dust. The only color in this…

Stalling Well the official definition of Procrastination is a type of “avoidance behavior” which is characterized by “deferment of actions of tasks to a later time”. Psychologists often cite procrastination as a mechanism for “coping with the anxiety associated with starting or completing any task or decision.” Now that’s a nice way of saying procrastination…