The Columbia Earth Day celebration was rained out last week. Seems fitting, in a way. Rain is the epitome of recycling: Raindrop to str...

Dear Gillian, Spring is just starting to peep out here in the Heartland. The trees are budding and the bulbs are blooming. In a week or tw...

Dear Dad, Remember in Eugene when you’d get those rare days in spring where, after dreary skies and an eternity of rain, the sun came blaz...

On Friday night I sat in a darkened high school auditorium and watched my girl dance under the bright stage lights. I have seen this particu...

It’s hard to imagine two more opposite performers than our children. Gillian, our oldest, was born with showmanship. Last-minute complicat...