Today I’m working on a re-draft of an article about a great place to go horseback riding near Portland, Oregon. It’s slated to run in early July in the Oregonian. The beginning will probably read something like this: Ready to run? “Ready to run?” Dream Ridge Stables owner Karen Brauer asks as we get to the bottom of a long…
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Walla Walla Wine Country
Walla Walla, Washington is a city of more than 31,000 inhabitants with a name that’s fun to say. Walla Walla is also enjoying a lot of buzz, and not because of the name (which means “place of many rivers” in the Sahaptin family of Native American languages). With its Walla Walla wines, especially its signature syrah, winning awards and high…
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Keeping Your Pecker up in This Down Economy
When my literary agent was first shopping around my anthology about parenting toddlers, I got down about the rejections. “Keep your pecker up,” my agent wrote in an email to me. We kept shopping the manuscript and we finally sold it to Seal Press. The economy is so down right now and all of my writer friends and I are…
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Mayborn Literary Nonfiction Conference
I often attend the ASJA annual conference, where I glean many lessons about writing and life, but I’ve never been to the Mayborn literary nonfiction conference. They have what looks like an amazing line-up this July. Mayborn literary nonfiction conferences are well known to literary nonfiction aficionados. The Mayborn Literary Nonfiction Conference July 24-26, 2009 Hilton DFW Lakes Executive Conference…
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Medford’s Marvels
My article about cool things to do in Medford, Oregon, came out in the Oregonian on May 16, 2009: Medford gets a bad rap. It’s nearly impossible to miss on a visit to southern Oregon, but the city has never caught on as a tourist destination. Although some 600,000 passengers fly through the Rogue Valley International-Medford Airport every year, tourists…
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On Not Voting Democratic
News flash: I’m not voting Democratic. Today while I was writing an article (about Ashland’s beloved Lithia Park) I got a phone call from a nervous campaigner for the Democratic party. “Jennifer,” he began, and kept inserting my name into the speech he was obviously reading from. “We elected Barack Obama, Jennifer…” He was asking for campaign contributions to the…
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