Causing a Stir The Secret Lives and Loves of Kitchen Utensils By PRARTHO SERENO Mansarovar Press Hardcover $16
By BILL DUNCAN The News-Review
Most people simply look at a knife, fork and spoon as a utilitarian set of eating utensils, but not artist/poet Prartho Sereno. She sees magic [...]
By BILL DUNCANThe View From Here
The weather outside is still dreary. Snow and ice thick enough to crunch under foot. Christmas is over and my recycling bin is overflowing with catalogs of things I don’t need like traveling wine glasses that allow you to unscrew the stem for easy packing. But my wish books haven’t [...]
A Christmas DinnerA Story by Charles DickensRecipes by Alice RossIllustrations by Sharon SteinRed Rock PressHardcover $24.95
BILL DUNCANThe News-Review
“Would that Christmas lasted a whole year through (as it ought).” –Charles Dickens
Who better could introduce “A Christmas Dinner” by Charles Dickens than Peter Ackroyd, the book critic for the London Times [...]
By BILL DUNCANThe View From Here
If there was ever a war between the sexes, I surrender. I know that is hard to believe coming from an old Marine who was trained never to retreat just to fall back for a better position. I know when I have met my match and discretion is the better [...]
By BILL DUNCANThe View From Here
Bandon, Oregon is one of my favorite coastal cities. It is also a favorite of many tourists, some of whom come from father away than the few hours drive I have to drive to reach the community. So what I am going to tell you shouldn’t have come as a [...]
How to Spell Hannukkah…and other holiday dilemmas Edited by Emily Franklin Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill Hardcover $18.95
By BILL DUNCAN The News-Review
There are gifts given during the Jewish Festival of Lights celebration of Hannukkah, or is it spelled Chanukah, or Hanuka, or Hanukka, or Hannukah [...]
By BILL DUNCANThe View From Here
My wife and I are celebrating the Thanksgiving day in Eugene with our oldest daughter and her family, including three great grandchildren. It is as it should be, a family affair in which each one at table contributes something toward the meal.
In my case, I always bring the family favorite, [...]
The Shack By William P. Young Windblown Media Hardcover $24.00 Paperback $14.99
By BILL DUNCAN The News-Review
William Paul Young of Portland might be called the reluctant writer. He says he wrote “The Shack” for his children, and never meant it to be published. For whatever reason he wrote it, it became [...]
By BILL DUNCANThe View From Here
Nothing is sacred to the electronic appetite. Imagine my surprise when I saw an advertisement for Monopoly, an old board game, saying it has now been adapted for the online age. I can’t remember what the board game I have originally cost, but I know for sure it was not [...]
By BILL DUNCANThe View From Here
You might confuse this column with an obituary for Meryl Lorraine Murphy who died in a Roseburg care facility on Nov. 4, but it is not. It is a tribute to an amazing man, LaVerne Murphy, who just happened to be Meryl’s spouse of 64 years. That many years of [...]
