Muffins & Mayhem
Recipes for a Happy, if disorderly, life
By SUZANNE BEECHER
A Touchstone Book
A division of Simon & Shuster
Hardbound $24.99
By BILL DUNCAN
The News-Review
Readers of The Senior Times section enfolded in the daily News-Review each first Monday of the month are familiar with the wit and wisdom of Suzanne Beecher. Those who subscribe to her on-line book [...]
By BILL DUNCAN
The Elderstatesman
Here I lie, or is it lay? Confound English. But then who hasn’t confused lie and lay?
The last time I wrote this column from this position was two weeks go and I said I’d be out of the hospital in a couple of days. I lied.
There you go again. This lie means [...]
By BILL DUNCAN
The Elderstatesman
I’ve never been much on titles. Occasionally, I’ll slip up and call myself by the prissy word, journalist, but deep down I’m just a reporter. I’ve been higher up in the newspaper ranks, even once was a publisher. And I have held the title of editor on several daily newspapers.
I am told [...]
By BILL DUNCAN
Elderstatesman
I receive too many unwanted forwards on this magic box called a computer. Every now and then one comes through that is a keeper, like the forward called 7% that I got from Charles Becherer, a hospice volunteer with me at the VA in Roseburg. Charlie is the most unassuming individual I [...]
52 Loaves
One Man’s Relentless Pursuit of Truth, Meaning and the Perfect Crust
By William Alexander
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Hardcover $23.95
By BILL DUNCAN
The News-Review
I love baking homemade bread from scratch and in general baking everything from scones to blueberry muffins. However, I will confess up front I don’t have the passion, obsession in the quest to [...]
