Profiles
I enjoy writing about people: here are some of my favorite profiles.
Bicyclist sees
the light
With 15% of sight left, mechanic makes good on life-long love.
Portland Tribune, March 11, 2008.
Untangling Addiction
Psychiatrist Marv Seppala helps drug addicts and alcoholics thread
their way back to sobriety by leading them down a path to recovery
he walked himself.
Portland Monthly, April, 2007.
Ten Minutes with
Tom
Halfway through his term, can Mayor Tom Potter turn talk into action
before his time runs out?
Portland Monthly, January 2007.
Paper Tiger
Profile of Street Roots publisher Israel Bayer.
Oregon Business, January 2007.
Emotional
Rescue
Whitewater legend Val Shaull is facing the toughest challenge of
his career: a 9-year-old girl named Jodie.
Portland Monthly, September 2006.
Mr. Yoshida's Rules
How well does karate work in the business world? Ask sauce boss
Junki Yoshida.
Oregon Business, August 2006.
Dreamweaver
Paiute artist Rena Beers weaves tradition into her cradleboards.
Travel Oregon, Fall 2006.
The Fisher King
Guido Rahr is on a mission to save the world--one salmon at a time.
Portland Monthly, June 2006.
Scars Fade, Memories
Don't
Can survivors of torture recover from their traumatic memories?
Willamette Week, June 1, 2005.
Hell on Wheels
Guardians of morality, beware! You are about to be blindsided by
a madcap quadriplegic.
Willamette Week, March 9, 2005.
The Grappler
Wrestling legend Dutch Savage still knows how to tie a reporter
in knots.
Willamette Week, 11/10/04
Satan's Pilgrim
Portland's leading devil dude philosophizes about good and evil.
But mostly about evil.
Willamette Week, 11/10/04
Family Feud
Who's gonna wind up with Reuben Lenske's millions?
Willamette Week, Nov 20, 2002.
The Girl
from Electra
How Treva Throneberry convinced the world she was a teenage runaway--again
and again and again.
Willamette Week, June 27, 2001.
Junkie Angel
Ex-dope fiends like Alan Levine may be Portland's strongest weapon
in the fight against the needle.
Willamette Week, December 5, 2000.
Undercover
Profile of a high-class hooker.
Willamette Week, January 26, 2000.
Dwarf vs Dwarf
The Little People of America want respect--and they're fighting
each other to get it.
Willamette Week, June 6, 1999.
Amid black
robes, a flash of colour
Kelly Tang's breakneck course in the Singapore legal system.
Unpublished. Sept 23, 1997.
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