Buying these products in Portland is like meeting your pharmacist at the jewelry store.

They taught me that no one is capable of love — so why bother with it.

Even though I’ve practiced the art of storytelling for decades, and at times made a decent living at it, I was much older than you’d think when I began to contemplate and understand the process of creativity, of the relationship between story and audience, of dramatic and emotional journeys, of character and catharsis and destiny. And of telling the truth.