The Oregon Shakespeare Festival rocks

This afternoon I returned home from a three-day trek to the Oregon Shakespeare Festival in Ashland, which is just north of the California border on Interstate 5. What a magnificent trip it was. I was a driver and chaperone on the trip for the theatre department at my younger son’s high school. There were pleasures […]

The Bard in Oregon

One of the highlights of our recent vacation was a side trip to Ashland, Ore., where I spotted this cap among many on sale in the gift shop for the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. We were only in Ashland for a day and didn’t take in a show, but that’s on the “must do next time” […]

Loose on the Palouse with a WSU ball cap

As my wife heads to Portland, Ore., my thoughts turn to: What am I going to eat for the next five days? Hey, I bought a ballcap near Portland a couple of years ago! Not just any ballcap. This was a genuine Washington State Cougars cap, an early 21st Century Nike model with stretch-to-fit elastic […]