By Bill Duncan The View From Here
To grow old is to watch many people die. That in itself is not intended to be morbid, because as poet John Donne so eloquently said, "Death, be not proud, though some have called thee mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so…" [...]
By BILL DUNCAN The View From Here
I started my newspaper career in the 1950s. Television was in its infancy and not much of a competitor for newspapers. It was more of a novelty. I worked for morning newspapers and except on weekends, never really watched the tube.
I knew that TV [...]
The Big Turnoff: Confessions of a TV-addicted mom trying to raise a TV-free kid By Ellen Currey-Wilson Algonquin Hardbound $23.95
By BILL DUNCAN The News-Review
If you tried to describe the unique writing style of [...]
By BILL DUNCANThe View From Here
The other day as I emerged from the post office in downtown Roseburg, Ore., a man was standing alongside a newspaper vending machine holding the door open.
He said to me: "I just put money in this newspaper rack, reach in and grab yourself a newspaper." I [...]
I knew from experience that castor oil has an after taste, but when I wrote a column some months ago about that vile cure-all, I didn’t fully understand the number of memories I was jogging. Reader mail poured in and it would seem everybody has a castor oil story and every [...]
Forever in Love By June Cotner Andrews McMeel Publishing Hardbound $16.95
By BILL DUNCAN The News-Review
Sunday I attended the 50th wedding anniversary party for Kenneth (Dick) and Beulah Schuldt at the Riversdale Grange. From the size of [...]
