Archive for November, 2010

Friday, November 26th, 2010

By BILL DUNCAN
The Elder Statesman
I’ve been out of step with the rest of the world most of my life. Last week’s headlines proves the point.
In case you missed it, Time magazine came out with the Pew Research Center nationwide survey that said one in four Americans consider marriage obsolete. I guess I’m just out of [...]

Scribbling a manuscript

Friday, November 12th, 2010

By BILL DUNCAN
The Elder Statesman
Funny how as you get older you revert to some of your old habits. I managed to get through journalism school without ever owning a typewriter. My assignments were first handwritten and later typed for submission in the college journalism newsroom.
Fortunately, I’ve always had a readable penmanship so transcribing was not [...]

A gardener’s gift

Friday, November 5th, 2010

By BILL DUNCAN
The Elder Statesman
Katharine S. White once wrote in her New Yorker magazine garden column, “Onward and Upward in the Garden,” that the ideal gift for a gardener was a sack of manure.
I would concur, but honestly I didn’t expect the oversized sack I got as a thank you gift from Navy veteran Karen [...]