Archive for July, 2009

J.K. Rowing’s tells it like it is

Friday, July 31st, 2009

By BILL DUNCANThe View From Here
These are troublesome times. Homes are being foreclosed. Long established companies are declaring bankruptcy or just closing their doors. Financial institutions are failing. Unemployment has reached levels almost to that of the Great Depression.
It was no surprise to me when best selling author J.K. Rowling addressed the graduates of Harvard [...]

A fool and his money

Friday, July 24th, 2009

By BILL DUNCANThe View From Here
I have often wondered if winning the lottery would change my attitude about money. I doubt it. Anyone  foolish enough to work for $35 a week after graduating from college, doesn’t have a lot of financial intuition.
That was my pay on my first newspaper job. When I left the industry [...]

The plural of zucchini is one too many

Friday, July 10th, 2009

By BILL DUNCANThe View From Here
I love cartoons. I often clip them with the full intention of pasting them in a notebook, but seldom get that far. I find those clips stuffed in books, sometimes yellowed from age. I was rummaging through a book I have had since 1938 that was part of a correspondence course on [...]

Book Review/Along Comes a Stranger

Friday, July 10th, 2009

Along Comes A Stranger By Dorie McCullough Lawson A debut novel HarperCollins Publishers Hardback $24.95 
By BILL DUNCAN The News-Review
To be truthful, while this review is about a debut novel, it is not just off the press. In fact, it was published in the spring of 2007. I received a review copy [...]

Why we speak a different language from the Brits

Friday, July 3rd, 2009

By BILL DUNCANThe View From Here
Saturday, Americans celebrate independence from Great Britain on July 4, 1776. If what I read is true, I can foresee another revolution in the making, if the Brits have their way. We are supposed to speak the same language, but frankly we have never agreed on that subject, particularly on spelling.
Recently [...]