In September of 2025 the Indescribable Scribes, a prose and poetry writing group affiliated with the Astoria (Oregon) Writers Guild, sponsored a day long writing workshop. 

Ogling tourists and transitory travelers attempting to “find themselves” are drawn to Astoria.

Clinging to a cup of coffee from the Astoria Coffee Shop and a notebook as if they were life preservers, he makes his way through the Cargo showroom near Astoria, Oregon's waterfront. 

I have become a fearful woman, after becoming a frightened woman. 

One of the more humbling realizations during this Trump administration is that it has forced me to confront how much I don’t know.

She watched in fascination as her older sister primped at the bathroom mirror ...,

Change won’t come in the winter; even though the sound of rain, like sharp nailed fingertips, drums with impatience on my roof.

Five of us, including the Chinese driver, were crammed into a Toyota land cruiser that bounced along on the vast Tibetan Plateau.

Anya and Kerensa, my granddaughter, have been friends ever since they met as college freshman percussion students four years ago.

My name is Tony Lopresti and today my ego took a hit.

I am a full-time Tier 1 Amazon Associate at a Fulfillment Center. It’s a love/hate mutually-parasitical relationship.

A visit to a public beach in Calabria leads to witnessing a woman's encounter with the god of the sea

My name is Tony Lopresti and I’ve been a lector since I started high school.

How is it that an innocent remark made by a seven year-old comes around again and again

My father is a font of wisdom and once gave me this sage advice

This morning I woke up with my cheeks wet with tears.

I’m a freshwater kid at heart.

Some places have the power to change the way we look at and live in the world. This is the first in a series

This is an essay drawn from a sermon preached on World Communion Sunday, October 7, 2018, at Peace United Church of Christ, Duluth,...

I woke up to the sound of foghorns: long, deep, incessant foghorns.