Archive for October, 2006

Remember Dear Reader: The earth is flat and ends at my driveway

Friday, October 27th, 2006

By BILL DUNCANThe Elder Statesman

This could be considered a Halloween story. It is scary enough to qualify.
For those readers of this column, you have long heard my theory that the earth is flat and ends at my driveway. Of this I am convinced, but my wife loves to travel [...]

This one was too precious not to share

Wednesday, October 18th, 2006

By Bill Duncan
I have a friend, a former student I taught in writing classes, Caralyn Northcroft, of Tenmile, Ore. who sends me e-mails with the heading: "This is too precious not to share." The precious words she sends never have an attribution and I always live in fear of being accused of plagiarism if [...]

This could be your lucky day

Wednesday, October 18th, 2006

By Bill Duncan
For the second time in 2006 those of us who suffer paraskevidekatriaphobia must prepare to face another dreaded Friday the thirteenth.
If you are wondering, I don’t really suffer from paraskevidekatriaphobia, the pathological fear of Friday the 13th. I just wanted to see the computer spell checker go into a panic over [...]