Leonard Cohen sang, “It’s four in the morning/the end of December/I’m writing you now/Just to see if you’re better…” in the mournful ‘70s tune “Famous Blue Raincoat”. Actually, here in the last embers of 2013, it’s more like late afternoon, and we—Ramona, ...
15 Jan 2014 - Melissa Favara
In August, Ramona and I drove to Salem to meet Regis, a fluffy little puppy whose picture we’d spied on a rescue society’s website. He would be the yin to our Newfoundland-mix Vera’s yang, when we brought her near-toxic level cuteness home eight years ago ...
4 Dec 2013 - Melissa Favara
I don’t believe in soul mates. At least, not in theory: I think of my life, my reality, as the one that won out among many possible realities that could be entirely different if I’d made one infinitely small decision elsewhere. As it happens, I decided to ...
25 Jun 2013 - Melissa Favara
This isn’t garbage. It’s totally useful,” says Marshall, the father of my child and my partner in crime, life, and everything. “It’s not garbage.” Our back gate is open to the alleyway, and a borrowed box truck full of lawn debris, rotten lumber, and sund ...
5 Jun 2013 - Melissa Favara
By Melissa Favara, Contributing Columnist I love teaching 20th Century American Literature in the Pacific Northwest in the spring. Spring term generally is great because it starts off gray and murky, and the students seem kind of draggy, and everyone gets ...
7 May 2013 - Melissa Favara
by Melissa Favara, Contributing Writer Friday morning, Dec. 14, I was in my old Volvo driving around Vancouver, WA, trying to find my colleague Alyssa’s house — her daughter, Sophia, was selling me her barely-used “Pink Cadillac” bicycle for $50 for Ramon ...
22 Dec 2012 - Street Roots Staff
Neither too big nor too small, this family is just right Neither too big nor too small, this family is just right. I don’t remember where I read it, but I recently encountered an article that discussed a new and disturbing phenomenon: People are getting d ...
13 Sep 2012 - Street Roots