Confession: I've taken public delight in disdaining Valentine’s Day while personally kinda liking it. Partly I like traditions, though...

pho·to·re·cep·tor noun: a structure in a living organism, especially a sensory cell or sense organ, that responds to light falling on it....

It’s raining. Of course it is. This is Oregon in January. But today, during a spell Oregonians call “misting” I headed up the hill with...