Yachats

How the same two words can mean such different things to people! Sure, “all alone” can mean being lonely or longing to be with others and is a sad feeling of being left alone or it can be “all alone” yeah! Now I can watch the big game in peace and quiet or I can…

I played in a band called Good Dog and to this day we former Dogs still bark at one another whenever we get the chance. It was a great experience being a Dog and I was recently reminded that being a Dog helps! In my case I’m dealing with an arthritic hip that’s seen better…

Invisible Walls “This is way different than getting out the last time. Probably because I’m older and got more to loose I’m halfway afraid to go out. Inside there you can’t just get up and go out, you can see the walls. I don’t see any walls now but I’m nervous.” He says that without…

“I’m outta here.” “Come in, I’ll be right out” I stepped into the motel room. A bed covered with clothes and gym bags took up a lot of space. There was also was a closet, a couple of chairs, a small table holding a lamp and phone, and a beat up dresser drawer mirror combo…

I’ll be up before the sun. A very still time of morning with the only noise being the booming of the surf except when the wind is kicking up. Then the trees will be talking. Downtown Yachats is quiet this time a day except for Robin Kingsbury who has been baking her fresh daily supply…

The taxes have been filed, and for those with kids, the last leg of the school year is in full swing, so people are gearing up for their summer getaways. In Yachats where I live summertime is tourist season or as I like to call it “visitor time” and things change around here from the…

Here’s to all the volunteers! While we continue to get bombarded by blasts from the highly visible Presidential hopefuls and the TV screens show horrific pictures from war ravaged parts of the world and showing in Texas busloads of children being shuttled from shelter to shelter in a highly controversial case involving the state versus…

Bridging Rainbow’s On July 30th 1970 in a horse pasture just above Dairy Road on the slopes of Haleakala, the volcano the makes up 75% of the island of Maui, Hawaii Jimi Hendrix played a free concert which became known as “The Rainbow Bridge Concert”. A film of the concert was directed by Chuck Wein…

Aircraft Carriers and Skate Boards There was a big move in my life recently, my girlfriends’ daughter and 15 year old Grandson Frankie moved from Portland and leased an apartment in the village we live in. The daughter has a new job at a resort and Frankie is starting at a new high school. It’s…

Blinded by The Light I know this might sound odd but today as I sit pondering my next column I find myself at odds with the Magnificent Sun which has seldom been seen in the area recently. Here on the coast it’s been cold, damp, and generally uncomfortable for the last couple of months and…