Upcoming Alexandra Fuller event in Ashland, Oregon! Here’s the letter that’s been sent out by the event organizers: Dear Southern Oregon Educators, I am writing to inform you of the upcoming Chautauqua Poets and Writers event. Nonfiction writer Alexandra Fuller will read February 19, 7:30 p.m., 2009 at Ashland High School’s Mountain Avenue Theater. Bestselling memoirs by Alexandra Fuller Alexandra…
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Reading Edith Wharton
After I finished Dombey and Son (a brilliant novel by Charles Dickens though one that’s surprisingly not well known), I took a break from Dickens to start an Updike’s The Centaur. We’re reading The Centaur in our book group. Anjie et al forgive me, but since page one it has been very effectively putting me to sleep. Zzz. But I left the…
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Ashland Community Vaccine Safety Meeting
Associated Press writer Jeff Barnard, who’s based in Grants Pass (but was in the Peace Corps years ago in Morocco and also lived on Cape Cod before moving to a more hospitable climate) interviewed me for a vaccine safety article he wrote, which is now all over the newswires. The subject: the CDC community meeting in Ashland, Oregon, on vaccine…
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McCloud: A Tiny Town on the Cusp
“McCloud: A Tiny Town on the Cusp” is the name of my article in The Jefferson Monthly about McCloud, California, which I’ve been working on for awhile. The full article is available to subscribers of Jefferson Public Radio. Here’s an excerpt: One cloudless night three years ago Rhonda Hiebert, 49, and her sister said goodbye to some friends at the…
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Ski and Snowshoe at Crater Lake, Oregon
In the winter you can snowshoe at Crater Lake. You can ski too. My article about skiing at Crater Lake just came out in the Oregonian, as did an article about how to snowshoe at Crater Lake. From the article on Crater Lake snowshoeing adventures: If you’ve never been snowshoeing, you probably imagine you’ll crunch effortlessly atop acres of snow…
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Raspberry Island
Raspberry Island, one of 22 islands in Lake Superior off the northernmost tip of Wisconsin, is a fascinating and wonderful place. When an editor first asked me if I wanted to go to the Apostle Islands, I asked, “Are you sending me to Greece?” I didn’t know there were islands in Lake Superior. Of all the family travel destinations I…
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