Adventure Racers Are My Weakness: Words and whitewater, grammar and granny gearsWednesday, November 19, 2008 @ 6:59PMI first came across Pam Houston’s colorful stories of adventure and travel in magazines and more recently I read the book that won her fame, Cowboys Are My Weakness. Last week, she visited Bend as one of the guest authors for the Nature of Words and I wrangled my way into her writing workshop. Pam, a single 46-year-old woman, has a house in Colorado, teaches at a university, loves dogs and takes ...
Local man finds adventure in Alaskan mountainsWednesday, November 19, 2008 @ 9:29AMSpecial to The ChronicleMike Carson of Muskegon with his trophy Dall sheep, shot near a glacier in the Chugach Mountains of Alaska. "It's such beautiful country," he said. When Mike Carson of Muskegon gets together with his brother, Steve, it's...