Rhapsody in Green: Bavarian Summer Wedding
Germany: Day 3 I planned my annual late summer trip to Germany around my friends’ wedding this past weekend. I knew Sara and Frank’s wedding would be amazing, especially with […]
Portland me mata
The only way I can adequately describe how Portlanders squeeze twelve months into four is to steal one of the traditional sayings about another city: “Madrid me mata.” A little […]
90s Night
I will bring back the fanny pack! Fanny packs will always be awesome. What were my 90s like? It has always been my personal mythology that I was thoroughly miserable […]
I’m So Fancy: My Profile on the Oregon Literary Arts Blog
I’m So Fancy: My Profile on the Oregon Literary Arts Blog Oregon Literary Arts is publishing profiles of the 2014 fellowship winners, and my heart is full of gratitude! My […]
New Kid on the Block
New Kid on the Block In terms of work, nothing is harder than being unemployed. But starting a new job at a new company is a close second. This is […]
What A Year of Unemployment Taught Me
I’ll be starting a new job at the end of this week, after about 50 weeks of unemployment. It was extremely hard for me in these last months, but I […]
YVR: Long Layover Delight
This past August, on the way to Germany, we planned a long layover in the Vancouver airport for the opportunity to walk around a bit in one of our favorite […]
The Rejected Wedding Speech
Before you get the wrong idea, you should know this isn’t a raunchy, zany collection of zingers à la The Wedding Crashers or Bridemaids. I was asked to write a […]
No Hollywood Death
Hollywood did a piss job of preparing me for my father-in-law’s diagnosis in mid-August of terminal pancreatic cancer. Slow to be discovered and quick to consume the patient, we never […]
Germany: Taking the Circus to the Circus
Christmas Eve I watched my four nephews nearly die of present-unwrapping-anticipation-insanity and almost fell asleep during the evening mass. Neither Chris nor I are religious, but his parents wanted to […]
Stephanie Golisch 