If someone ever hands me a winning Powerball ticket, after I pay twenty percent in tithes and donations to local charities and paying my bills, I would pursue one of the following five goals.
One, buy an apartment in Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paulo, or Ribeirao Preto, and retire to Brazil. Two, launch a weekly newspaper that provides local news coverage for the communities of Sutherlin and Oakland, like the former Sun-Tribune used to do. Three, open a pizza parlor in Roseburg that serves the best-tasting pizza, like the former Carls' Pizza did in Sutherlin (similar to what is served today at Stark Street Pizza in Portland). Four, build a local drive-in movie theater, so people in Southern Oregon would no longer have to travel to Northern California or Portland suburb to watch an outdoor movie. Five, become a self-taught ventriloquist and tour the country with my ventriloquist (vent) figures, the politically correct term for dummies. Or, some combination of the above five goals.
Until I receive that windfall, I will have to content myself in pursuing another one of my goals in life: publishing a book of short stories of my personal experience. I would never put myself in the same league as Eugene Register-Guard columnist Bob Welch, but it's those types of short stories that I write: personal, political, or geographical tales of life.
Thus, that is the reason for creating this blog. Not because I necessarily have anything profound to say, but because I need a place to be a repository for my written work. I wrote weekly newspaper columns between 2002 and 2007 for the now-defunct North County News (Sutherlin) and the Winston Reporter, where I served as editor. All I have are hard copies of my written work, so this blog will help provide a place for me to (hopefully) store my work for all posterity.
At the risk of sounding immodest, it would also be nice if some people who haven't previously read my columns in newsprint now enjoy reading them on the world wide web! Thank you very much! And for my friends in Brazil, Muito Obrigado!
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