All Things Oregon
To celebrate Women’s History Month this week’s All Things will shine a spotlight on three unique, talented and artistic Oregonians – Ebba Wicks Brown, Marian Wood Kolisch and Toni Pimble.
Category Weekly Columns
A Botanist’s View of Local Flora – Bleeding Hearts
Self-Heal, Heal-All – Prunella vulgaris
Let me introduce you to a pretty little wildflower that you can find throughout the forests and meadow edges of our area.
Winding Trails by Al Hobart – Exercise
More and more, if we get our hands on the right kind of literature, we read of the importance of physical exercise in building up and maintaining good bodily health. The muscles, it seems, instead of resenting any additional burden imposed on them in the name of good health – within reasonable limits, of course – respond by performing some chemical magic that gives us a pleasant feeling of well-being and general fitness, a feeling that is conspicuously absent after prolonged periods of inactivity.
Crawlies with Cri – Brachymeria ovata
This week’s crawly is a petite but potent pest controller. Meet Brachymeria ovata an adorable little chalcid wasp with a tongue twister of a genus name (pronounced Bruh-chi-mer-E-ah) – yup. We’ll call them “ovata” for brevity and to avoid spraining our tongues.
Cri Goes Rogue – Mach 4, 2026
When I was working on last week’s Rogue I had to dig through some boxes to find my Half Dome tee. As it happens 99.9% of the time, I found lots of other non-tee things during my search.
Wayne’s World – March 4, 2026
The Preventor: America’s Life Safety Superhero! Not exactly widely known, but he did exist. And now it can be revealed. I was the Superhero known as The Preventor.
All Things Oregon – Snakes
Okay, look, there never were any snakes in Ireland, but work with us here because we have lots of snakes in Oregon and they deserve to be celebrated! In lieu of a St. Snakes Day, we’ll have to piggy-back on St. Pat’s.
A Botanist’s View of Local Flora – Bleeding Hearts
by Dr. F. Alice LeDuc Bleeding Hearts – Dicentra formosa, Pacific Bleeding Heart; Dicentra uniflora, Steers Head Bleeding Heart or Longhorn Bleeding Heart The Bleeding Heart, is one of my childhood favorite flowers. It is so in part because of a favorite book I read…
Winding Trails by Al Hobart – Birthday Gift
A long time ago I discovered that a good laugh acts as a sort of tonic, both physiological and mental. I mean the kind of laughter that bubbles up spontaneously from the very depths of one’s being.