By BILL DUNCAN
As I write this column, snow is piling up outside my window, so the subject matter might seem a bit strange. I am projecting months ahead to the time I can turn the soil and start the miracle of the seed. Like Katherine White who wrote in her book, [...]
By BILL DUNCAN
Ever wonder what to do with all the beautiful cards you receive at Christmas, other than trashing them and choking the landfill with that one more straw?
Ever since Eunice Dutton of Roseburg introduced me to St. Jude’s Ranch for Children, my Christmas cards have been packaged [...]
By BILL DUNCAN
The Handyman Club of America from Minnetonka, Minn. has nominated me for membership. I don’t make this stuff up, folks.
Why was I nominated?
Well, the nomination committee said I had been chosen from thousands of handy people. The nomination said it’s no secret among "your friends and family [...]
Invisible Hero A novel By ROGER K. MILLER iUniverse Publishing A print on demand publisher $28.95 hardcover $18.95 paperback
By BILL DUNCAN The News-Review
Roger K. Miller insists this book is fiction, but readily admits it was inspired by a real person and [...]
Even Cat Sitters Get the Blues A Dixie Hemingway Mystery By Blaize Clement Thomas Dunne/St. Martin’s Press $23.95 hardcover
By BILL DUNCAN The News-Review
The late Fred Reenstjerna did a study of mystery writers when he was a cataloging librarian for the Douglas County Library System
at the Douglas [...]
By BILL DUNCANThe view From Here
My daughter Sue gave me a prized Christmas present this year, one that she said "had my dad written all over it when I saw it." It is a sweatshirt with a saying printed across the chest: "Lead me not into temptation…" The underline says: [...]
By BILL DUNCANThe View From Here
This column today, just a few days into 2008, is about heroes. Probably not the kind you expect to be reported in a newspaper, but never the less, heroes in my mind, along with hundreds of other heroes you’d expect to be recognized in print — [...]
