By Bill Duncan The View From Here
I am remodeling a house that was built almost 60 years ago as a farmhouse on the acreage I own in the Riversdale section of rural Roseburg. The remodeling entails tearing down walls.
The only thing I found between the old studs – true 2 x 4s [...]
Can’t Wait to Get to Heaven By Fannie Flagg Random House Hardbound $25.95
By BILL DUNCAN
Anyone who has read Fannie Flagg’s previous books know they are in for some funny dialog and weird characters. How does she come up with the strange plots, the real life dialog and those wonderful characters?
"When [...]
By BILL DUNCAN The View From Here
When the theory of catch-and-release fishing was first promoted, I couldn’t imagine, as poor of a fisherman as I am, releasing the fish I finally caught. Now comes another theory I have difficulty understanding. It is called read and release.
Since I hoard books as precious possessions, I find reading-and- [...]
By Bill Duncan The View From Here
As a hospice volunteer, I recently took a training course to update myself on working with people nearing the end of life.
I asked the presenter, a palliative care nurse practitioner, her opinion of Norman Cousins’ theory on the curative power of laughter. She dismissed it is as so [...]
By Bill Duncan The View From Here
I just read about a solution suggested by a medical researcher to the growing problem of stress among humans in these troubled times – working jigsaw puzzles.
The activity it was said has a calming effect on people because they can only find that odd piece of a tree among [...]
By Bill Duncan The View From Here
With the gasoline crisis facing Americans, a group of senior citizens that I play cards with in a pinochle tournament reminisced about the days when service stations gave incentives for motorists to buy their gas. We oldsters remember S&H Green Stamps, in particular.
Of course there [...]
