The Glass Castle By Jeannette Walls Scribner Hardbound $25
The Glass Castle is memoir about what can be done By BILL DUNCAN The News-Review
Memoirs can sometimes be tedious to read, but not "The Glass Castle," by Jeannette Walls. From the moment the story begins when Walls, a successful writer living on Park Avenue in New York [...]
By BILL DUNCAN The View From Here
Imagine my surprise when I opened the opinion page of The Capital Press in Salem, Ore. and read the newspaper’s editor-publisher, Elaine Shein’s column, writing so elegantly about a Southern boy named Rick Bragg. It wouldn’t have surprised me as much, but since Elaine grew up in Canada, [...]
By BILL DUNCAN The View From Here
There are times when I wonder if everything I eat isn’t killing me. At my age, doctors keep narrowing the diet. A cardiologist even told me that despite my restriction on what I eat, the liver was probably creating triglycerides — the latest health threat for me that doctors [...]
By BILL DUNCAN The View From Here
Valentine’s Day on Tuesday, Feb. 14 should be a holiday for all of Oregon. After all that was the day Oregon moved from a status of territory to statehood. On February 14, 1859, President Buchanan signed the bill and Oregon joined the federal union. If it were not for [...]
