In my dream, it's book launch night and I've just finished up with my event at Powell's. I am so happy. Everything went well. I ...

I drive past Powell's City of Books' downtown store every weekday on my way to work. Usually I cross the river via the Burnside B...

It's Friday at work, and I'm at my desk with the earphones on, the weird ones that hook over your ears and hang across the back of y...

I sit at my new desk, facing my new wall. It's a dry erase board. Someone put my name on it, my name and an arrow, for the computer guy...

Every Portland writer dreams of reading at Powell's City of Books - not to mention plenty of writers across the country. What a clich é ...

In part to decorate for the holidays, in part to celebrate our 41st anniversary, Powell's decided, this year, to create some lovely a...

Not last Saturday but the Saturday before, I cleaned out my desk and workspace at the Powell's Burnside store. [I know, I'm very la...

Like lots of people, I was perplexed when I heard they'd awarded no Pulitzer Prize in fiction this year. What this seemed to be saying w...

I'm in the middle of the switch between positions at Powell's, from In-Store Merchandising and Promotions Coordinator to Lead Visua...

This is what I was doing yesterday when the e-mail went out to the company announcing that I'd taken the Lead Visual Merchandiser posi...

With Cal, hanging holiday lights at the City of Books. Cal's on the ladder, jingle of the knot of keys latched to his belt loop, and I...

[just because i liked the theme of yesterday's post...] Step one: grab the garland and scissors and tissue paper and go down to Powell...

Two days to cram in the week's work at Powell's before Mom and Dad arrive and I take the rest of the week off. This two days happens...

At the end of the mezzanine, waiting for the elevator with my cart of books, I reach and pull a book off. Open it. Careful. To where I was l...

On impulse this morning, alone in Powells' big elevator with a few carts of books, I pulled one off and decided to open it at random and...

Open letter to Lidia Yuknavitch. Dear Lidia, Please stop getting in the way of my morning shelving duties at Powell's City of Books....

Excited to be seeing One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest tonight at Portland Center Stage. This morning, I took a look back in the old journ...

I love stories about wacky families. One of my February window displays celebrates these stories, including one of the wackiest of all, Jess...

I've put a new Employee Spotlight display up at Powell's City of Books. This month, I'm highlighting Diane Rios [self-portrait a...

So many great improvements to the Merchandising Space at Powell's. I had Stephen take a few pictures with his phone on Saturday. One gre...