Editor’s note: Bill Duncan, who normally writes the weekly column, The View From Here for The Capital Press. is on a writing assignment this week. His wife, Ada, who is also a writer, thought readers would like to have a different viewpoint than his usual musings. She is writing his column this week.
By ADA GRACE DUNCAN
The View From Here [...]
By BILL DUNCAN The View From Here
Back in September I wrote a review on Deborah Copahen Kogan’s just released book, “Between Here and April,” in which the famous photojournalist wrote a novel about why a mother would kill her own children. The book highlighted the stress mothers are under in the burdens of child rearing [...]
Introduction to Science and the Scientific Method By JOHN L. CAMPBELL Vantage Press Paperback $15.00
By BILL DUNCAN The News-Review
If you know John Campbell of Roseburg you know he has a mathematical mind that thinks in numbers and statistics and like a computer converts those binary thoughts into words. After all, numbers have been his [...]
By BILL DUNCANThe View From Here
Here’s a bit of Oregon trivia. Did you know Oregon has a state song? Do you know who wrote the state song back in 1918 or 1919? Would you believe a Roseburg, Oregon attorney wrote it?
Bob Robins retired in 1985 after 22 years as the Roseburg High School choir director. [...]
Dog Blessings Poems, Prose and Prayers Celebrating Our Relationship with Dogs Edited by June Cotner New World Library Hardcover $16
By BILL DUNCAN The News-Review
This is June Cotner’s 25th book, but she readily confesses that she was so taken while compiling “Dog Blessings,” that she ended up appreciating her two Golden Retrievers even more. “I didn’t [...]
Night KillBy Ann LittlewoodPoisoned Pen PressHardcover $24.95Mystery Fiction
By BILL DUNCANThe News-Review
If anyone could write a believable mystery using a zoo as an authentic background it would be Ann Littlewood. Before writing her first mystery, Ann was a zookeeper for 12 years in Portland where she raised lions and cougars as part of her daily job. [...]
By BILL DUNCAN The View From Here
My 2009 Old Farmer’s Almanac calendar arrived in the mail the other day, so I found myself looking at next year, first to discover what day my birthday would be. Unexpectedly I learned all the days I could join my fellow bay-at the-moon howlers. Lately, I have noticed that [...]
Between Here and AprilA novelBy Deborah Copaken KoganHardcover $23.95Algonouin Books of Chapel HillTo be released Oct. 7, 2008
By BILL DUNCAN
The News-Review
Deborah Copaken Kogan’s “Between Here and April,” is a debut novel that came about because the author, like many of us, could not imagine what would cause a mother to kill her own children. What [...]
By BILL DUNCANThe View From Here
A week ago today, my wife and I did a workshop on writing memoirs at a conference euphemistically called “Extraordinary Living.” This is the first year the conference is called that, but the conference has been held at Umpqua Community College in Winchester, Oregon for 26 years under the name [...]
By MELISSA LATERZA
After hours of traveling on windy roads and through rolling green hills we finally pulled onto a gravel covered driveway, the tires of the car softly crunching as they pushed their way forward. To our left were rows beautiful tulips every color of the rainbow. To the right was my grandparent’s brown two [...]
