Sunrise Palms
Several years ago I was near poverty, struggling to fetch out a living in a southern Oregon town, li...

The funny thing about this painting is this was the visualization I had of the first house I owned, a nearly dilapidated post-war house in Grants Pass, Oregon. A mean oak tree had buckled the driveway, lifing it three feet from the ground, and threatened the converted garage foundation, there was nothing but a three step stoop, by the front door, and the door was actually a delaminated mahogany interior door that was thin as paper.
Two years later it looked almost exactly like this, without the driveway slab but with a square step, rail, and porch railing, every brick carefully laid by my own hand.
Several years ago I was near poverty, struggling to fetch out a living in a southern Oregon town, li...
Hear them chirp at the birds, flying from the neighboring roof to the nest in the eaves of the house...
Generation after generation, we all relive the first bike we owned through our children, watching th...
It Begins With Us is part of a series that began with one of my wife’s daily walks in which sh...