Spending a day

It took me about 20 minutes to drive from The Star News office in downtown Medford to the Stetsonville Village hall on Monday afternoon. For the record, I did not use the ridiculous great circle detour that the state has of taking Hwy 64 east to Hwy 97 and then south Hwy 29 and then north on Hwy 13 from Abbotsford. If I, or anyone else for that matter, actually followed the official detour, I m...

Budgets season is the most wonderful time of the year. I feel the need to put an asterisk next to that statement. In an absolute sense, it is perhaps as only wonderful, to a very select group of people. OK, that group of people might also entirely overlap with who looks back at me when I stare dead-eyed into my bathroom mirror each morning. Still, since this is my column, I feel comfortable ...

I am in a camp fire state of mind. There is something about August that makes me long for sitting beside a camp fire. Whether it is sharing jokes or stories with friends over frosty beverages. Reading in the dimming light of evening with my feet propped up against the warm stones of the fire ring, or sipping on whiskey while watching the glowing embers in the dark, there is something about a...