
Storm Beat
Journalist Lori Tobias arrived on the Oregon Coast in 2000. After freelancing from Newport for several years, she signed on to the Oregonian as a...

rough house
Tina Ontiveros was born into timber on both sides of the family. Her mother spent summers driving logging trucks for her family’s operation, and her...

Never Leaving Laramie
John Haines spent the better part of the 1980s and 1990s traveling the world: biking through Tibet, kayaking the length of the Niger River, taking...

I Have Not Loved You With My Whole Heart
I Have Not Loved You With My Whole Heart is a memoir of trauma, healing, faith, and violence. At its center is the author’s father...

On the Run
Catherine Doucette is a backcountry skier, horseback rider, and mountaineer—roles that have resulted in adventures where she is often the only woman in a group...

The Last Layer of the Ocean
There are five layers of the ocean, though most of us will only ever see one. The deepest layer is the midnight zone, where the...

North Bank
"Learning the territory is a process I don't fully understand, but one that tugs at me with a feeling like necessity," writes Robin Carey. That...

The Eclipse I Call Father
In The Eclipse I Call Father: Essays on Absence, David Axelrod recalls a balmy night in May 1970 when he vowed to allow no one...