Writer explores depth of mental illness A Mind Apart By Susanne Antonetta $24.95 Hardbound Penguin A book review/Jan. 26. 2006
By BILL DUNCAN The News-Review
When Susanne Antonetta wrote her best selling book, "Body Toxic," which could be best described by her subtitle, "An Environmental Memoir," it was a tell-all personal account of her growing up years
on [...]
By BILL DUNCAN The View From Here
As I write this column there is a gentle, soft rain just outside my office window. It is a typical Oregon rain and a relief from yesterday’s hard downpour, but still it is rain adding to the saturated earth. As I look out, I can see puddles [...]
BY Bill Duncan The View From Here
Funny how little things help you make a big decision. For more than two years my wife and I have been discussing selling the acres in rural Roseburg and moving into the city.
We have come to a decision. We are not moving.
It is not the fact that I dread [...]
By BILL DUNCAN The View From Here
Sixty years ago I enlisted in the Marine Corps as a sleepy head teenager. I recall sleeping on the train enroute to Parris Island, S.C. for boot camp. That wasn’t a comfortable sleep sitting up on those hard seats in the passenger cars of trains in [...]
Yep, he’s truly a nut case By BILL DUNCAN
I retired from the newspaper business in 1977 and moved to Roseburg, bought acreage and planned to be a gentleman farmer. I didn’t reckon with black mud and an irrigation well that petered out about July, so I naturally found my way into doing other things. [...]
Who is frightened of Friday the 13th? By BILL DUNCAN The View From Here
If the January calendar is correct, this Friday is Friday the 13th. That is when all the bad omens are supposed to crawl out from under the rock.
So knock on wood, toss spilled salt over your left shoulder, keep a horse [...]
By BILL DUNCAN The View From Here
I am going to write about a book that you probably won’t find in your local bookstore and you might not be able to find it any where, but I feel compelled to share the book with readers. Even the title is unusual, "Letters from Kik-I-Allus," and as best [...]
A house filled with blessings for all the year A book review that appeared in Currents, the arts and leisure magazine published each Thursday by the daily News-Review, Roseburg, Oregon
House Blessings By June Cotner Chronicle Books Hardcover $15.95
Everyday Blessings By June Cotner [...]
