Showing 205 results for tag Family

Rainwater Soup

Patti Moss on the echoes of family, memory, and home.

Beyond the Margins | March 14, 2024

Ponderosas and Junipers

George James Kenagy writes about the trees that defined his childhood and his family ties to Central Oregon.

Beyond the Margins | February 16, 2024

Treasures

Sam Mowe on Buddhism, heritage, and his family home

Beyond the Margins | January 12, 2024

Corazón de Fuego / Heart of Fire

La Comida de Nuestras Madres / The Foodways of our Mothers by Yanely Rivas

Beyond the Margins | January 5, 2024

Our Untapped Treasures: Children and Elders are Problem Solvers too

There are many reasons why people fail to invite children and elders to the table when it comes to solving problems: “They’re too young.” “They need to be protected from hearing about serious issues.” “I’m sure they care, but the world is a very different place now.” “They’re just going to talk about how things used to be.” “I wouldn’t want my child to be burdened with this reality.” “I don’t want to have to explain the issues repeatedly.”

The more serious the issue, the less likely it is that a child or elder will be helping to come up with a solution. We were all children once, and sometimes we had great solutions to problems that adults didn’t have. If we’re fortunate, we’ll all become elderly, and we will have a wealth of experience and accumulated wisdom to share. The goal of this conversation is to encourage people to approach problem solving in a more inclusive manner and ask elders or children to share their ideas.

Learn more about this free, in-person event.

Event | January 13, 2024

Tonalidades de la Vida / Shades of Life

Ana Maria Rodriguez on family, field work, and the many meanings of "green."

Magazine | December 15, 2023

Portrait of My Mother in Mint Green

She lived most of her life in the United States. Why didn’t she become a citizen?

Magazine | December 15, 2023

Memoria Ancestral

Comic by Yanely Rivas

Magazine | December 15, 2023

Entrevista: Rafael Romero Vejar habla de la vida del campo y sus sueños por su familia

Rafael Romero habla con su padre, Rafael Romero Vejar, Subre su vida de trabajo en el campo, su experiencia de migración, y lo que quiere para su familia.

Beyond the Margins | December 7, 2023

Interview: Rafael Romero Vejar on Field Work and Family

Rafael Romero speaks with his father, Rafael Romero Vejar, about his experiences working in agriculture and the dreams he has for his family.

Beyond the Margins | December 7, 2023

Room 5

Adam Sawyer writes about finding hope and healing in a hundred-year-old hotel on the Oregon Coast

Beyond the Margins | November 24, 2023

How to Build a Snow Cave

Joliene Adams reflects on loneliness, chronic pain, and her father's life.

Beyond the Margins | October 20, 2023

Safety Search

Judy Jiang writes about looking for solace in words after the death of a family member.

Beyond the Margins | October 13, 2023

Some People Eat Fish

An excerpt from 'Diary of a Misfit' by Casey Parks

Beyond the Margins | September 26, 2023

Refugio

La experiencia de una familia con migración, detención, y encontrando seguridad en Oregon. Por Ana Maria Rodriguez con Nella May Parks

Magazine | August 25, 2023

Refuge

One family's experience with migration, border detention, and finding safety in Oregon. By Ana Maria Rodriguez with Nella Mae Parks

Magazine | August 25, 2023

A Haven, A Refuge

Jaton Rash on the fine line between being sheltered and unsheltered.

Magazine | August 24, 2023

The Distance Between Us

Barb Lachenbruch writes about reconnecting with her son through their shared vocation.

Beyond the Margins | June 16, 2023

Loneliness and Aging: Making Space for Our Elders

Loneliness and isolation are common experiences for elderly people, especially for those who do not have nearby family members or who are not computer literate. What do you know about the elders in your life or in your neighborhood? Are they connected to their families in an enriching way? Do they belong to a caring community of some kind? This conversation is for elderly people and people who live near elders or have elderly people in their lives to explore questions, experiences, and obstacles to showing up for elderly people and to generate ideas for connection.

Read more about this conversation and register here.

Event | June 27, 2023

Creation Stories

Melissa Bennett writes about the bittersweet search for her Indigenous roots as a transracial adoptee.

Magazine | April 24, 2023

The Wisdom That Finds Us

Stacey Rice recalls her journey of struggle and survival as a transgender elder.

Magazine | April 24, 2023

We Will Be Here

Lana Jack writes about the mourning, resilience, and resistance of the Celilo Wy-am.

Magazine | April 19, 2023

Unapologetically Afghan American

Yalda Asmatey writes about straddling two worlds: Afghanistan, the country of her birth, and the United States.

Beyond the Margins | April 17, 2023

In Praise of No Other Options

Jessica E. Johnson writes about the benefit of having a captive audience.

Beyond the Margins | March 17, 2023

Pack Matters

Erica Berry on wolves, family, fear, and love

Beyond the Margins | February 17, 2023

Boarding School Inheritance

Nolan James Briden writes intergenerational trauma and incarceration in this excerpt from Prisons Have a Long Memory: Life Inside Oregon’s Oldest Prison, a collection of writing by prisoners at Oregon State Penitentiary.

Beyond the Margins | February 3, 2023

From the Director: Grounding

Adam Davis on not knowing where we will be buried

Magazine | January 9, 2023

Gray Matters

Ryan Pfeil on how the challenges of 2020 affected his work, family, and memory

Beyond the Margins | November 9, 2022

Día de los Muertos

This comic by Yanely Rivas reflects on the meaning of Día de los Muertos and honoring and communing with ancestors.

Beyond the Margins | November 1, 2022

The Middle of Nowhere

Evelyn Sharenov writes about memory, music, and maternal inheritance.

Beyond the Margins | October 6, 2022

Lines for the Dead

Melissa Madenski on honoring those we loved and lost as the whole people they were.

Beyond the Margins | August 26, 2022

The River Oblivion

Laura Gibson on family, forgetting, and the underworld.

Magazine | August 24, 2022

Mëshatàm Lënapehòkink: I remember the land of the Lenape

A photoessay by Joe Whittle about finding joy and mourning on four journeys home.

Magazine | August 24, 2022

Telling Our Story

May Saechao writes about how the Iu Mien community connects to history and traditions across time and distance.

Magazine | August 24, 2022

The Act of Remembering

Jamie Passaro reflects on the purpose of the obituary.

Magazine | August 24, 2022

A Bridge Between

Kate Lucky on how we connect to family history as it turns from memory into myth.

Beyond the Margins | July 29, 2022

Proper Care

Diane Choplin on the messy business of birthing lambs and the more complicated work of raising children.

Beyond the Margins | July 14, 2022

The Father I Remember

Hoang Samuelson writes about her family's story and the quiet care of her father.

Beyond the Margins | May 27, 2022

Making Pre-K Possible

This comic by Sarah Mirk explores how universal preschool went from an idea to the ballot to law in 2020.

Magazine | April 26, 2022

The Caregiver Strain Index

Erica Goss reflects on the experience of caring for her son within a dysfunctional mental health system.

Beyond the Margins | April 1, 2022

Consider This with Laura Kipnis

Join us for a conversation with Laura Kipnis, author of Love in the Time of Contagion and Unwanted Advances, on love, marriage, and capitalism. Kipnis is a cultural critic and essayist whose work focuses on sexual politics in the United States. This program is part of our 2022 Consider This series American Dreams, American Myths, American Hopes.

Event | May 11, 2022

Beyond Pigmentocracy

Chance White Eyes and Rachel L. Cushman write about how racism, representation, and internalized oppression affect their family

Magazine | December 15, 2021

The Rebirth of Wonder

Tricia Gates Brown on poetry, mortality, and the love you don't see coming

Beyond the Margins | August 20, 2021

They Belong to Themself

We do not possess the intellect, identity, or sexuality of our children, Chelsea King writes in this essay. We are only witnesses to their journeys.

Beyond the Margins | August 13, 2021

Connect in Place - Do You Remember? Why We Celebrate Anniversaries and Holidays

Memorials, holidays, and anniversaries are opportunities to tell stories about how we relate to what came before, and how that informs what we see as the work ahead. This time of year is full of anniversaries and holidays, including Stonewall, Juneteenth, Fourth of July, and the racial justice uprisings of last summer. What does it mean to commemorate, and why do we do it?

Event | June 29, 2021

Five Cemeteries

Bija Gutoff writes about seeking serenity among old headstones after the sudden death of her father.

Beyond the Margins | May 20, 2021

Where We Store Shame

Larina Warnock writes about her family's attempts to fill the void of poverty and how it shaped her understanding of what to hold onto.

Magazine | April 27, 2021

The Things We Carry

Vanessa Houk and her family escaped the wildfires, but lost their home and all of their possessions. Here, she describes what remains.

Magazine | April 27, 2021

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Readers write about Possession.

Magazine | April 27, 2021

Connect In Place: Should Schools Reopen? Risk, Reward, and Making Decisions in Community

Schools in Oregon are in the process of bringing students back into physical classrooms after a full year of virtual learning for many. Join Aimee Craig in a reflective conversation that asks, How do you weigh risks and benefits? How do we make decisions as a community when risk is involved?

Event | April 6, 2021

Saved by the Bell

Food writer Heather Arndt Anderson on how childhood poverty and working in the school cafeteria shaped her connection with her subject.

Beyond the Margins | March 24, 2021

Love and Noodles

Marilou Carrera writes about the meaning of pancit, a dish that is so much more than just fried noodles—it's history, family, and community.

Beyond the Margins | March 3, 2021

“We Know Who’s Got Our Six Now”

Bruce Poinsette considers the Father's Group, an intergenerational community group in Central Oregon, as an example for the future of Black-led organizing in Oregon.

Beyond the Margins | February 5, 2021

Fermenting My Asian American Identity

Jen Shin writes about how a summer in Vietnam helped her embrace her Korean heritage.

Beyond the Margins | January 19, 2021

Connect in Place: Bias and Kids

Most people agree that children need healthy, loving, supportive environments to thrive. But biases can affect how we interact with the children in our lives in ways we may not even realize. By reflecting on our biases, we can be more aware of how we impact children’s perceptions of themselves and others. During our conversation, we will reflect on how our biases—conscious and unconscious—related to gender, race, class, culture, and other traits shape everything from our subtle interactions with the kids we care for to the way we make political decisions that influence children in our society.

Event | February 9, 2021

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Readers write about Feed

Magazine | December 21, 2020

From the Director: What It Means to Be Seen

Adam Davis on writing obituaries for family in the midst of a pandemic.

Magazine | December 17, 2020

Kitchen Ghost

Digging into the origins of her family's Filipino–Polish food traditions, Lola Milholand finds a tangle of colonialism, identity, and hurt.

Magazine | December 17, 2020

Mama Will Feed You

A mother’s journey through cultural reclamation, changing food systems, and the new wave of mutual aid

Magazine | December 17, 2020

Eid al-Adha, Festival of Sacrifice

Visiting family in Egypt during Eid Al-Adha, when sheep and cattle are sacrificed and their meat is given away, an Egyptian-American writer considers family, faith, and violence.

Magazine | December 17, 2020

Into the Woods

Dionisia Morales writes about what happened when she dragged her her father, a life-long New Yorker, to see the California Redwoods for the first time.

Beyond the Margins | December 10, 2020

Without a Towel

Dani Nichols writes about the lessons learned during a lifelong battle with water.

Beyond the Margins | November 13, 2020

Heavy

Pandemic and politics surfaced feelings I couldn't face, or even describe. So I ate them. An essay by Bobbie Willis Soeby

Beyond the Margins | October 16, 2020

The Family You Choose

Residents of Portland’s C3PO camps share their experiences of street life, the pandemic, and building a new community. By Olivia Wolf

Beyond the Margins | August 25, 2020

The Bakken Breaks

Jennifer Strange writes about how she and her husband, both avowed environmentalists, found themselves working North Dakota's Bakken oil fields.

Magazine | August 25, 2020

Steelhead

An excerpt from Tina Ontiveros's memoir, rough house.

Magazine | August 25, 2020

The Other Side of What We Know

Caitlyn May writes about searching for the identity lost when her mother was adopted by a white family in New York.

Beyond the Margins | August 21, 2020

Race and Adoption

In this conversation, facilitator Astrid Castro will ask participants to explore questions such as, What role do race and racism play in your family? What are the personal experiences that inform how you talk to adopted children in your life about where they are from? Where do you need to grow to be the best resource you can be for children who are adopted?

Event | August 11, 2020

Virtual Think & Drink with Kali Thorne Ladd, Alex Sager, and Paul Susi: What Are Schools for?

A live conversation on the purpose of school for students, parents, teachers, and the community at large. Watch the recording of this August 2020 program here.

Think & Drink | July 24, 2020

My Left Thumb

Melissent Zumwalt writes about what she has inherited from her absentee father.

Beyond the Margins | June 18, 2020

Full Membership

My thoughts, ambitions, and dreams did not have a gender. Why did my pay?

Beyond the Margins | April 27, 2020

My Parents’ Exes

Cartoonist Kane Lynch interviews his parents’ former partners about how their lives intersected.

Magazine | April 27, 2020

The Privilege to Raise Our Voices

Melissa Hart writes about her mother, her daughter, and finding meaning in protest across generations.

Magazine | April 27, 2020

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Readers write about “Union.”

Magazine | April 27, 2020

People, Places, Things

Berenice Chavez photographs her mother.

Magazine | April 27, 2020

The View from Council Crest

Ruby McConnell writes about revisiting the landscape of her sister's fatal overdose.

Beyond the Margins | April 20, 2020

Indian Enough

Emma Hodges writes about how the "enduring colonialist notion" of blood quantum fails to encompass the complexity of Native identity.

Beyond the Margins | February 28, 2020

Consider the Wedding—2004

Jamie Passaro considers why women who know better still buy into the Big Bucks White Wedding industry in the 2004 “Marriage” issue.

Magazine | December 23, 2019

Resume of Failures—2011

Kim Stafford writes about the stories of struggle, insecurity, and loss behind his accomplishments in the 2011 “Fail” issue.

Magazine | December 23, 2019

Making Men—2016

Bobbie Willis Soeby writes about raising her sons to not rape in the 2016 “Edge” issue.

Magazine | December 23, 2019

Good Hair—2017

Kimberly Melton writes about the meaning of hair and going natural despite family and society expectations in the 2017 “Carry” issue.

Magazine | December 23, 2019

If You've Made It This Far

An excerpt from Don Waters' memoir These Boys and Their Fathers

Beyond the Margins | October 17, 2019

Saturdays Inside

Madeline Baars Brandt writes about her experience of driving girls to visit their incarcerated mothers.

Magazine | August 13, 2019

A Body in Motion

Tara L. Campbell on searching for the roots of her daughter's incessant rocking and her own need to stay moving.

Beyond the Margins | July 19, 2019

Editor's Note: Pushing Forward, Holding Back

Kathleen Holt writes about seeing herself reflected in her son's fierce passions.

Magazine | April 29, 2019

The Life We Pay For

Tina Ontiveros writes about the different paths her life and her sister's have taken since their shared childhood experiences of poverty and abandonment.

Magazine | April 29, 2019

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Readers write about Push.

Magazine | April 29, 2019

What I Do

Between writing, housekeeping, and mothering, my life is full. But I still feel pressure to make my mark, to show I was here. An essay by Jamie Passaro.

Beyond the Margins | March 28, 2019

Talking about Place, Race, and Family

An interview with Ezra Marcos Ayala, a photographer and father of three living in Ashland.

Beyond the Margins | January 14, 2019

More than Words

Emilly Prado explores the stories of three families in the small rural border town of Nyssa, Oregon, and how immigration policy changes have affected their lives.

This Land | December 20, 2018

Editor's Note: Finite and Unpredictable

Editor Kathleen Holt writes about the settling and unsettling of an aging parent.

Magazine | December 13, 2018

New Foundations

Samantha Bakall writes about an innovative pilot project that pairs families in need of housing with Portland homeowners who have a little land to spare.

Magazine | December 13, 2018

Black Nightshade and Bierocks

Heather Arndt Anderson writes about finding connections to her Volga German ancestors through recipes and semi-poisonous berries.

Magazine | December 13, 2018

Relearning Home

Mark Putney writes about finding belonging in a Willamette Valley hazelnut orchard after leaving the wilds of Kodiak, Alaska.

Magazine | December 13, 2018

Waiting

Renee Soasey writes about reckoning with her father's life and approaching death.

Magazine | December 13, 2018

Bias and Kids: How Do Our Prejudices Affect Our Children?

During our conversation led by Verónika Nuñez and Kyrié Kellett, we will reflect on how our biases—conscious and unconscious—related to gender, race, class, culture, and other traits, shape everything from our subtle interactions with the kids we care for to the way we make political decisions that influence children in our society.

Event | December 11, 2018

Conversation Project: Bias and Kids

How Do Our Prejudices Affect Our Children?

Event | December 13, 2018

Conversation Project: Bias and Kids

How Do Our Prejudices Affect Our Children?

Event | October 18, 2018

Conversation Project: Bias and Kids

How Do Our Prejudices Affect Our Children? This event will be held in Spanish

Event | October 16, 2018

Conversation Project: Race and Adoption

In this conversation, facilitator Astrid Castro will ask participants to explore questions such as, What role do race and racism play in your family? What are the personal experiences that inform how you talk to adopted children in your life about where they are from? Where do you need to grow to be the best resource you can be for children who are adopted?

Event | November 6, 2018

Conversation Project: Bias and Kids

How Do Our Prejudices Affect Our Children?

Event | October 20, 2018

Editor's Note: The Point of the World

Editor Kathleen Holt on children, caution, and turning toward the struggle for justice.

Magazine | August 30, 2018

Episodes in People Watching

Dionisia Morales on teaching kids to be wary of their surroundings in an excerpt from her book, "Homing Instincts"

Magazine | August 30, 2018

People, Not Pundits

Catherine Johnson writes about attending a conservative convention in an effort to understand her mother's politics.

Magazine | August 30, 2018

True Costs

Editor Kathleen Holt on the immeasurable obligations between parents and children

Magazine | April 27, 2018

Buying Time

Wendy N. Wagner on what we owe our children

Magazine | April 27, 2018

Posts

Readers write about Owe

Magazine | April 27, 2018

Conversation Project: Stone Soup

How Recipes Can Preserve History and Nourish Community

Event | April 14, 2018

Conversation Project: Stone Soup

How Recipes can Preserve History and Nourish Community

Event | June 23, 2018

Conversation Project: What We Owe

Living With Debt

Event | March 11, 2018

Unclaiming the Land

Melissa Madenski writes about leaving her home of forty years and what binds us to the places in our lives.

Beyond the Margins | February 26, 2018

Sixteen in America

Marissa Levy writes about mental illness exacerbated by stresses created by social media and academic pressure.

Beyond the Margins | February 1, 2018

Conversation Project: Stone Soup

How Recipes Can Preserve History and Nourish Community

Event | March 17, 2018

Editor's Note: Chipping Away

Kathleen Holt on eroding the system of patriarchal oppression as a parent.

Magazine | December 15, 2017

The Reflex

Jamie Passaro on searching for the cause of her daughter's debilitating tantrums

Magazine | December 15, 2017

Posts

Readers write about Harm

Magazine | December 15, 2017

Conversation Project: Stone Soup

How Recipes Can Preserve History and Nourish Community

Event | March 15, 2018

What's Brewing?

The Crook County Foundation hosts this public forum on current events and issues happening locally, regionally, and at the state level. This is an Oregon Humanities grant-funded event.

Event | October 18, 2017

Conversation Project: Stone Soup

How Recipes Can Preserve History and Nourish Community

Event | February 24, 2018

Conversation Project: Stone Soup

How Recipes Can Preserve History and Nourish Community

Event | November 16, 2017

My Brother's Keeper: "Unlisted: A Story of Schizophrenia"

This fall, Four Rivers Cultural Center in Ontario will present "My Brother's Keeper," a series of eight documentary film screenings exploring the lives of marginalized peoples and issues such as mental health, addiction, and mass incarceration. Each screening will be followed by a presentation and Q&A session by a local nonprofit or government agency.

Event | October 11, 2017

Conversation Project: What Are You?

Mixed-Race and Interracial Families in Oregon’s Past and Future

Event | November 18, 2017

People Aren’t Illegal

Photographer Ezra Marcos Ayala reflects on the making of “To Live More Free”

This Land | August 25, 2017

Invite in the Stranger

Adam Davis on radical hospitality

Magazine | August 22, 2017

S'so's Tamales

Sal Sahme writes about finding his spiritual path as a boy on First Mesa.

Magazine | August 22, 2017

Posts

Readers write about Claim

Magazine | August 22, 2017

Conversation Project: What Are You?

Mixed-Race and Interracial Families in Oregon's Past and Future

Event | June 3, 2017

Conversation Project: Stone Soup

How Recipes Can Preserve History and Nourish Community

Event | May 18, 2017

Conversation Project: Understanding Disability

Family and Community Stories

Event | April 19, 2017

Conversation Project: Stone Soup

How Recipes Can Preserve History and Nourish Community

Event | August 16, 2017

When to Carry

Editor's note

Magazine | April 10, 2017

What They Carried

The things four refugees brought with them when they came to Oregon. Story by Caitlin Dwyer, photos by Kim Oanh Nguyen

Magazine | April 5, 2017

Split

Lessons about men’s and women’s work divide a boy from his community. An essay by Ryan Stroud

Magazine | April 5, 2017

Conversation Project: Stone Soup

How Recipes Can Preserve History and Nourish Community

Event | May 9, 2017

Conversation Project: Stone Soup

How Recipes Can Preserve History and Nourish Community

Event | May 20, 2017

Good Hair

Going natural despite family and societal expectations. An essay by Kimberly Melton

Magazine | April 4, 2017

Conversation Project: Understanding Disability

Family and Community Stories

Event | March 16, 2017

Conversation Project: What Are You?

Mixed-Race and Interracial Families in Oregon's Past and Future

Event | March 5, 2017

Conversation Project: Stone Soup

How Recipes Can Preserve History and Nourish Community

Event | March 3, 2017

"Mothering Inside" Screening and Panel Discussion

Free screening of the documentary Mothering Inside about the effects of incarceration on families

Event | March 24, 2017

Conversation Project: Stone Soup

Event | February 11, 2017

Conversation Project: What Are You?

Event | February 9, 2017

Sometimes Break Apart

Oregon Humanities magazine editor Kathleen Holt on sexism, power, and exclusion on her son's co-ed soccer team

Magazine | December 6, 2016

Uncovered

Writer Donnell Alexander and photographer Kim Nguyen on one undocumented family's long wait for adequate health care

Magazine | August 11, 2016

Slow Ascent

A Chinese American woman searches for belonging in the country of her grandparents. An essay by Jessica Yen

Magazine | August 11, 2016

Making Men

Writer Bobbie Willis Soeby on raising her sons to not rape

Magazine | August 11, 2016

"I'm Not Staying Here Another Day"

A conversation about the Great Migration with Isabel Wilkerson and Rukaiyah Adams

Beyond the Margins | June 28, 2016

The Gift of a Known World

Oregon Humanities magazine editor Kathleen Holt on the power--and privilege--of rooting oneself to places

Magazine | April 11, 2016

A Tremendous Force of Will

A conversation about the Great Migration's and the civil right movement with Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Isabel Wilkerson

Magazine | April 11, 2016

Housekeeping

In the face of loss, cleaning hotel rooms and a lifelong friend offer solace. An essay by Meryl Williams

Magazine | April 11, 2016

Not Built for Ghosts

Writer Helen Hill on consequences she faced after leaving her beloved home in the hands of others

Magazine | April 11, 2016

Between Ribbon and Root

Hope and a history of tragedy live together in a Cowlitz woman's son. An essay by Christine Dupres

Magazine | April 11, 2016

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Readers write about Root

Magazine | April 7, 2016

Mothers to Daughters

Mothers give advice to their daughters about living bravely in an unsafe world in this film produced by Sika Stanton for Oregon Humanities.

Beyond the Margins | March 7, 2016

Objects in Motion

Editor Kathleen Holt on inertia

Magazine | December 18, 2015

What We Pass On

Adam Davis, executive director of Oregon Humanities, writes about cultural inheritance.

Magazine | December 18, 2015

Getting Out

Loretta Stinson on deciding to leave an abusive marriage for good

Magazine | December 18, 2015

All the Same Ocean

Finding the horizon in a life rocked with waves. An essay by Jason Arias

Magazine | December 18, 2015

Posts

Readers write about Move

Magazine | December 18, 2015

David and Goliath

Remembering a friend from a hospice house. An excerpt from What the Dying Have Taught Me about Living: The Awful Amazing Grace of God by Fred Grewe, an Oregon Humanities Talking about Dying community discussion leader.

Beyond the Margins | September 23, 2015

Safely and Bravely

Editor Kathleen Holt on keeping her daughter safe in a place filled with threats of violence, disappointment, and despair

Magazine | August 11, 2015

Plague Fears

Eula Biss writes about how a threat becomes a plague in this excerpt from her book On Immunity.

Magazine | August 11, 2015

Group Therapy

Copping out at an uptown slumber party. An essay by Dionisia Morales

Magazine | August 11, 2015

This Is Not Just a Cloud

Embracing grief in the wilderness. An essay by Michael Heald

Magazine | August 11, 2015

The Rim of the Wound

Writer Wendy Willis's open letter to the students of Columbia University Multicultural Affairs Advisory Board, with a special note to her daughters.

Magazine | August 11, 2015

Posts

Readers write about Safe

Magazine | August 11, 2015

Magazine Podcast: Fix

Jaimie Passaro talks about parenting through bipolar episodes with Oregon Humanities editor Kathleen Holt

Beyond the Margins | August 6, 2015

A Return Passage

Reporter Putsata Reang and photographer Kim Nguyen share their stories of leaving their home countries as refugees, meeting as students at the University of Oregon, and returning to Southeast Asia as journalists. A film produced by Dawn Jones for Oregon Humanities.

Beyond the Margins | August 5, 2015

Stepping Backward

Hearing lessons from a bomb. An essay by David Naimon

Beyond the Margins | June 30, 2015

Beyond Repair

Editor Kathleen Holt on the aftermath of a traumatizing fire

Magazine | April 7, 2015

Perhaps, Perhaps

Bobby Arellano on waiting for an alcoholic father to stand up

Magazine | April 7, 2015

Resume Usual Activity

Jamie Passaro writes about parenting—and being parented—through mental illness.

Magazine | April 7, 2015

Posts

Magazine | April 7, 2015

Starting Over

The bumpy repair of a family after a sudden loss. An essay by Melissa Madenski

Beyond the Margins | March 24, 2015

A Temporary Insanity

Torn between the pull of family and the pull of home. An essay by Gail Wells

Beyond the Margins | January 22, 2015

Messy Business

Editor Kathleen Holt on parenting as performance

Magazine | December 8, 2014

Boxed In

Writer Wendy Willis ponders which race to check and which people to leave behind when asked about her racial and ethnic background.

Magazine | December 8, 2014

Are You My Mother?

When a new medication makes the Lois Ruskai Melina's mother more outgoing and impulsive, she must face a choice: Should she have her taken off the drug, even though she likes her better on it?

Magazine | December 8, 2014

Posts

Readers Write about Quandary

Magazine | December 8, 2014

Another Life

I think often of the taste of my grandfather's grapes and of the meat from my father's knife. An essay by Hanna Neuschwander

Beyond the Margins | November 18, 2014

Magazine Podcast: Start

Talking about epigenetics, adoption, faith, and clowns with Oregon Humanities magazine contributors

Beyond the Margins | November 5, 2014

What's the Use?

Why bother with history? Why bother at all? An essay by Robert Leo Heilman

Beyond the Margins | October 16, 2014

The Bamboo Ceiling

Alex Tizon on how "Orientals" became "Asians." An excerpt from Big Little Man: In Search of My Asian Self

Beyond the Margins | September 15, 2014

Almost a Family

Colleen Kaleda writes about the hope and hearbreak of international adoption.

Magazine | July 31, 2014

Small Man in a Big Country

Native language is just the first thing an immigrant family abandons in order to become American. An excerpt from Little Big Man: In Search of My Asian Self by Alex Tizon

Magazine | July 31, 2014

What's Mine Is Yours

Editor Kathleen Holt on developing a capacity for solitude and a habit of self-reflection in her children

Magazine | March 25, 2014

You Remind Me of Me

Parent and child, strange and baffling creatures that are part, yet no part, of each other. An essay by Daniel Rivas

Magazine | March 25, 2014

Posts

Readers write about "Me"

Magazine | March 23, 2014

What It Means to Say Portland

Mitchell S. Jackson on the experience of growing up Black in North and Northeast Portland.

Magazine | December 5, 2013

Why We Stay

Monica Drake on raising a family in an urban neighborhood instead of a more serene but less vibrant rural place.

Magazine | December 5, 2013

A Crooked Still Life

An illness, a recovery, and a couple’'s uncertain future. An essay by Margaret Malone

Magazine | November 8, 2013

Picture Their Hearts

Dionisia Morales looks back at her parents’ interracial marriage before the height of the Civil Rights Movement.

Magazine | August 9, 2013

Being Brown

Bobbie Willis Soeby on when skin lies and when skin tells the truth

Magazine | August 9, 2013

The Good Fight

Can letting our children roughhouse lead to a better democracy? An essay by Sarah Gilbert

Magazine | August 7, 2012

Paradise

Tragedy on a hot summer day. An essay by Monica Drake

Magazine | April 8, 2012

My Brother, the Keeper

A woman tries to understand her brother's need to hoard. An essay by Dmae Roberts

Magazine | December 10, 2011

Unimaginable Riches

The unfamiliar offers its own rewards. An essay by Joanne Mulcahey

Magazine | August 12, 2011

Shooting the Lions

Two cousins try to revive the family circus with tragic results. By Susan Meyers

Magazine | April 4, 2011

Résumé of Failures

The stories of struggle, insecurity, and loss behind a successful writer’'s accomplishments. By Kim Stafford

Magazine | April 4, 2011

The Long Look Back

Editor's note by Kathleen Holt

Magazine | December 5, 2010

Blank Slate

In a single day, a forty-year-old man finds himself unmarried and unemployed. What to do next? An essay by Dave Weich

Magazine | August 10, 2010

Go Ahead and Look

In praise of forbidden looking. An essay by Scott Nadelson

Magazine | March 17, 2010

Seen Though Not Heard

In the designs on a Klikitat basket, a woman finds an unspoken link to her past. An essay by Christine Dupres

Magazine | March 17, 2010

Here, Not There

A wife looks to the Greeks when her husband is called away to war. An essay by Sarah Gilbert

Magazine | November 23, 2009

Irreconcilable Dissonance

The threat of divorce as the glue of marriage. An essay by Brian Doyle

Magazine | November 23, 2009