This past week I was invited to give a short, eight-minute talk about Portland's food scene to a gathering, called an "incubator...

Most of us are swimming or, more likely, drowning, in stuff. We don't need another gadget or doodad or gewgaw. But gift certificates ...

Making lists, checking them twice…and don't get me started on the whole naughty or nice thing. It's just all too much to keep tra...