Where Did You Get That Tan? // matt werbach
by matt werbach I decided to get healthier so I quit the gym. I live in an area that has long been known as the playground of Portland. We windsurf, […]
Author Archives: This Hood Life
YOU ARE READING // matt werbach
I deleted a dozen iPhone apps last night. A few months ago, before the holidays, I deleted my Facebook account. Something strong and mellow has come over me. Yesterday […]
HE’S JUST FROM CALIFORNIA // matt werbach
photo: matt werbach We arrived at Viento’s tasting room at the Gorge White House after a day of winery tours. I was the designated driver because of my indifference to […]
YOUR STUPIDITY PRECEDES YOU // matt werbach
photo: matt werbach I should know better than to build a piece around the ignorant comments semi-anonymous readers leave on small regional newspaper websites. I’m going to ignore the voice […]
HOW WE TELL // matt werbach
photo: matt werbach I would like to start a conversation with no intention of ending it. I don’t even know the question I seek to ask. I think I want […]
YOU WOULDN’T UNDERSTAND // matt werbach
photo: matt werbach “There is supposed to be ice on the roads. I’m a little worried.” “Drive carefully.” “Love you.” Her breath smelled of coffee and toothpaste. “Love you too.” […]
AS THE WIND BLOWS // matt werbach
photo: matt werbach There will be changes. This Hood Life will be further adopting the local aesthetic with timely new content in a wider array of forms. The modern fiction […]
WE ARE NOT NOW THAT STRENGTH // matt werbach
My grandfather was a boxer. He won a Pan-Am amateur title of some sort in Cuba before people couldn’t go to Cuba anymore. He looked like Hemingway, but he was […]
THE VALUE OF SEEING IN P.C. // matt werbach
Is anyone’s favorite flavor really vanilla? No, it’s not an essay about ice cream. I got in a Facebook argument the other day—a quick pointless spat really—that later woke me […]
THANK YOU FOR THE SADNESS // matt werbach
I no longer believe in the conventional understanding of time and experience. Not like in LOST, although after two years of contemplating it I think maybe I’m starting to understand […]
