On February 10th, please join us for a C99 gathering at Pure Spice Chinese restaurant at 1:00 p.m. It is on the NE corner of SE Division and 87th Ave in Portland. The address is 2446 SE 87th Ave., 97216. They have a web site- purespicerestaurant.com

They have a large banquet room. I think we'll be comfortable in a corner of it.

I grew up just about two miles, as the crow flies, or as the child finds a path through what we called the Creek, from Lewis and Clark College. My older brother matriculated there, played basketball for them in the late 60s for awhile. One of my major life heroes, William Stafford, taught English there for many years while I was growing up.

So it has been a major blow to me to discover that this past weekend at least two hate crimes occurred on the campus in the span of a couple of hours.