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Essays ·
2026
On the second of April, 2024, a woman named Teela Banister went into labor in a rural home outside Baker City, Oregon. A young mother, a rural nurse, and a state Medicaid director on the public healthcare system being quietly withdrawn from the Americans who need it most…
Essays ·
2026
In an interview with a Portland television station, kindergarten teacher Grace Steele described what she spends her own money on for her classroom. A Portland teacher and the invisible third budget that keeps American public schools running…
Essays ·
2026
My son started fourth grade this morning. An essay on eight years of institutional drift in Oregon, and what it has cost the people who live here…
For Children ·
2026
He comes to my door in the gray light of early morning and whispers the smallest question in the world. This is an essay about the disappearing language of childhood…
Short Stories ·
2026
No one remembers when the Rivers first learned to speak. A fable in which the animals convene a parliament to decide whether humans still belong among the living things…
Other Writing ·
2020
One spring afternoon my boy saw a whole field of crimson clover for the first time and stopped, wide-eyed, as if he’d stumbled into magic. A father on learning to see the world again through his child’s eyes…