Month: November 2021
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Years ago, my good friend Liz Engstrom (see her great tips for writers) turned me on to a terrific book about travel journaling, “Writing Away,” by Lavinia Spaulding. That book helped me start adding images to my journals, and while I am not and never will be a great artist, there are a few things,…
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British author Wilkie Collins turns up on many “best” lists for his fantastic mystery novels of the 19th century. He was among those who pioneered the detective genre. I consider “Woman in White,” published in 1859, to have one of the best villains in fiction. Count Fosco is compelling and complicated, the opposite of a…
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In 2020, I had the singular pleasure of writing about Bob Keefer, himself a longtime journalist who has become a unique artist, taking black and white photographs and hand painting them, using a technique that was common in the era of black and white photos. Oregon Artswatch published the piece about Bob and they were…
Susan Palmer's Exquisite Now 