Next Stops: Lake Oswego & The Dalles

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I learned to love reading long before I first stepped inside a Bookmobile. Mama taught me the value of story by reading to me most every night. But it was more than love of great books that made me linger inside that Muskogee County Bookmobile parked on the corner of Lake Forest Trailer Court in [...]

A Poetic Conspiracy

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So I have this beautiful neice. Taylor. You know a girl is beautiful when she looks like this after a morning of fishing. Like her brothers and her father, Taylor loves to fish. She’s pretty good at it, too, as you can see. Taylor would never tell you this but I’m her favorite aunt. That’s [...]

Fifty Shades of Grey: Masturbation of the Mind

The young prosecuting attorney called me into his office. “Take a look at these,” he said, handing me a stack of photos. We’d just left the courtroom where a sex offender was given less than five years for sodomizing an 8-year old boy and raping  a 12-year-old girl. The deal was offered in an effort [...]