Portland, Oregon journalist and writer Mark Ellis has placed features, essays, op-eds, interviews and reviews on the websites PJ Media, the Daily Caller, Renew America, the Good Men Project Magazine, and the Portland Oregonian. His fiction has been published at Liberty Island. He is the author of Ladder Memory, Stories from the Painting Trade, a memoir about his career as a painting contractor. He is currently an editorial associate at Portland's traditional values monthly, the Northwest Connection. Follow Mark on Twitter.