
Once a month, I share the best of what I’ve been reading, watching, and exploring. Enjoy! Books The Uncool by Cameron Crowe. I loved this book based on the real-life story behind the film Almost Famous. Crowe became a Rolling Stone journalist at fifteen, and his secret weapon wasn’t access or connections—it was that he […]
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It was a Friday night in San Francisco. October 2008. I was a young lawyer, spent from a long week, sinking into the couch with a glass of wine and a movie queued up. The plan was no plan. Then a friend called. He had an extra ticket to see some singer I’d never heard […]
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“Portland is our forever home.” I must have said it a thousand times. It rolled off my tongue like a love letter. It felt effortless. It sounded beautiful. And it was completely untrue. We lived there for thirteen years. And for thirteen years, that line never wavered. I said it constantly. At dinners. In passing. […]
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