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TOO MUCH? TOO MANY? WHEN CAN YOU TELL

Too much of anything is a problem, but not when someone else tells you. You’ve got to tell yourself. It’s that simple. And that difficult. But, as usual, there’s more to it.

HAIR STYLE AND MORE: THE ‘HAIRAPIST’ IS IN

Hair style is a lifestyle for Debbie McRoberts. For thirty-two years she’s been beautifying Oregon one head at a time. And listening to all who sit in her chair. Her motto: “What’s Said In The Chair Stays In The Chair.”

WRITER ENCOURAGEMENT: WHY IT MATTERS

Writer encouragement works like this: “I just read a book so good I will stop writing forever.” That’s encouragement if you read between the lines. Read a book that moves you to feel something. My favorite book?

BEACH MUSIC BY PAT CONROY, A REVIEW

Beach Music sat in my TBR pile for years while I passed by. At over 700 pages it intimidated me. I like novels around 200-250 pages. The Great Gatsby clocks in at 208 paged; Catcher In The Rye runs 234 pages, more or less. Beach Music at 800 pages? I got a Harry Potter vibe […]

WRITER WORKING ON CASU-11

The writer working on Carrier Aircraft Service Unit 11 is William Little. The official title of his book is MECHANIC ON THE WING, The Untold Story of Carrier Aircraft Unit Eleven (CASU-11) 1943-1946. I first heard about it in 2019 during a Rick Steves tour of Paris. There was something about meeting a former Navy […]

DON’T CARE, OR CARE, THERE IS NO TRY

If you don’t care about something, stay off the soapbox. Save your big talk for something you care about, we’ll figure out the rest. Once you’ve been around the block a few times it gets easier to care than not care. Why, you ask?

WRITERS SOCIALIZING WITH WRITERS

My aunt warned me about writers socializing. I’d taken the train from Philadelphia to Princeton, New Jersey for a visit. She was studying at the Princeton Theological Seminary to be a preacher; I was in the Army learning to be a writer. Since she had a degree in literary criticism she had a lot to […]

UNGROUNDED LIFE IN TIGARD

An ungrounded life is for people who wish they were somewhere besides where they are, where they live, where they spend their time. I met one of them in the local Walgreens. I could tell he was ungrounded by how he looked. He was wearing a suit, which from my experience, was his work clothes.

TOO MUCH? TOO MANY? WHEN CAN YOU TELL

HAIR STYLE AND MORE: THE ‘HAIRAPIST’ IS IN

TOO OLD FOR A NEW STORY?

SHIFT TALKERS WORK OVERTIME

WRITER ENCOURAGEMENT: WHY IT MATTERS

BEACH MUSIC BY PAT CONROY, A REVIEW

WRITER WORKING ON CASU-11

DON’T CARE, OR CARE, THERE IS NO TRY

WRITERS SOCIALIZING WITH WRITERS

UNGROUNDED LIFE IN TIGARD

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