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May.20.2011
I'm sharing some photos my son took recently on a trip to the Oregon Coast. Thinking of incorporating one into my next cover.
Pop over to my blog if you'd like to see some gorgeous views.
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Apr.07.2011
Pubished in 1963, SAGN was Ken Kesey's second book. He must have written chunks of it while on LSD, because of the herky-jerky wildness of some passages. (At Standford in 1959, he was paid by the CIA to experiment with LSD.)
(Leland) "Can I possibly go back and wrest from my past some...
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Feb.18.2011
I am sitting in a leather chair. A fire burning in small wood stove. I have a cup of coffee beside me, and to my right is a view of the big and bountiful southern Oregon Coast. It is raining out, which is perfect as I prepare for tonight’s keynote speech at the South Coast Writers Conference in...
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Jun.28.2010
Hello writerly community!
I'm heading to Oregon (Portland and Coos Bay specifically) at the end of this week and looking for any interesting (literary or no) suggestions of what to do while there. I adore Powell's bookstore, so that will be a must-visit. Anything else? Any favorite little...
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May.29.2010
On Sundays about 9 a.m. the faithful of Lower Hillsdale Heights (the neighborhood where amateur sleuth Emma Golden resides) begin to move.
Emma spots them from her kitchen window as they march determinedly, sometimes singly and sometimes in packs, south down the sloping street toward what is known...
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May.29.2010
On Sundays about 9 a.m. the faithful of Lower Hillsdale Heights (the neighborhood where amateur sleuth Emma Golden resides) begin to move.
Emma spots them from her kitchen window as they march determinedly, sometimes singly and sometimes in packs, south down the sloping street toward what is known...
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Mar.28.2010
This morning, they were necking in the tall, wet grass.
Two Canadian geese off to themselves. You know the ones. Noisy honkers, spook easily. Always make a big production with lots of ostentatious flapping. I admit, I’m not much of a fan. They remind me of tourists somehow. All those little...
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Mar.08.2010
What was I thinking? The weather forecast for the Northwest was "partly cloudy, showers", generally a safe bet, so I wore a big black raincoat and layers for my trip to Seattle and Portland. Had I forgotten the daffodils during the Vancouver Olympics? Forsythia, flowering quince,...
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Feb.16.2010
I have a new travel piece on Western Oregon's Wolf Sanctuaries in Matador. It was a joy to research and write, and a highlight for me personally as well. I mean, how often does one get to kiss a wolf? Read it here.
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Oct.21.2009
My uncle called it "Sin City". I never knew why. When I came here it was big and scary--but then I was a country bumpkin, remember.
I soon got over the big and scary. I figured out the buses and learned not to make eye contact with the wrong people. I learned where to go for the best...
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