Five months ago I did not imagine doing what I am today. Inconceivable isn’t the right word, because the idea did occur to me, eventually and spontaneously. I guess you could call it conceptual moment. Last October I was browsing through Craigslist, looking for nothing in particular other than a part-time job of some sort to boost [...]
Author Archives: Paul Gerhards
Father and Son Secrets
I wrote this essay 25 years ago—two years before my youngest child, Kathryn, was born. It’s a vignette of my life back then. It was published in the January 31, 1988 edition of “Northwest Magazine,” which once upon a time was the literary supplement to the Sunday Oregonian. The original title was Father and Son [...]
The Sadness of Victory
I’m grateful Barack Obama won reelection. Of the two candidates he is the more principled and the one more able to understand and address the needs of the entire country, not just the other 47%. In spite of the powerful propaganda that says he has done nothing during the past four years, Obama has [...]
