Archive for March, 2009

Briefly. I don’t generally enter contests, nor do I generally push my aesthetic or editorial agenda, but I found the Name Your Dream Assignment idea impossible to ignore. Essentially you envision your dream photographic assignment, explain it, and if you win they give you $50,000 to make it real. I have had this idea kicking [...]

Mr. Pencil and I are making a point of strengthening our library of local and regional history books. We have the biggest collection of Raymond Hatton books (mostly about Central Oregon) on all of LibraryThing. Recently we tried to buy a first edition (from 1928) of Lewis McArthur’s Oregon Geographic Names, which is now in [...]

One of the ironic characteristics of Crohn’s Disease is that the sickness it causes me is quite likely partially because my immune system is too strong. I had never really stopped to think about this. I had always thought I got as sick as anyone else. Headaches, sometimes Migraine? Check! Stomach pain, tube grief, and [...]

OK, folks, I hate to distract with minutiae but I have spent some time doing some things with the ol’ site here. Normally I keep quiet about things like this (I am quite often tinkering, but I imagine most of you read via RSS anyway), but this is something I haven’t quite exactly seen done [...]