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As a part of my Wallowa County Writer-in-Residence duties, I get to teach two adult writing workshops for Fishtrap. Any of my blog readers who aren’t local are welcome to take the first workshop [...]

Simply put: photo prompts never fail. I could do this all day with young writers! I just l-o-v-e those first moments after I give them a first line or a starter idea, then show them a photograph. [...]

You know you live in Enterprise, Oregon when… You can walk 200 yards one direction from your house and see this: And 200 yards the other direction and see this: Which incidentally, is the old [...]

A good friend of mine who lives in Brooklyn emailed me one day, alerting me to someone called “The NYC Nomad.” She described him as my urban counterpart. His mission? To live in a different [...]

Can you imagine? Fifty-five cents for a round trip train ride to see a baseball game played by “ballologists stronger than a Dutch lunch.” First of all, the sign uses a metaphor, which basically [...]

This week I began teaching at Enterprise School, grades K-12 housed on the same campus in two separate buildings. I teach 3 sections of 7th/8th grades mixed and 1 section of 10th-12th grade [...]

It begins with simple curiosity—a tiny book in the Enterprise City Library titled The Train Comes To Wallowa County: A Brief History. It’s published by Bear Creek Press, which claims on the [...]

I went looking for the past this weekend, walking the old steel rails through downtown Enterprise, where in 1908 the first steam engine visited the valley. By 1966, most depots that residents had [...]

No lesson plan is necessary to describe the smiles on these faces. No detailed outline, no footnotes. Just the true picture of success. Here, a Joseph High School senior has just successfully [...]

I’m finding it a little challenging to orient to Enterprise. This is probably due to the fact that I’m still teaching in Joseph and, unfortunately, still cannot go on walks (doctor’s orders) [...]