Category: Random
Me talkin to myself
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I didn’t know when I started reading A Tale for the Time Being that I would like it. Recommended to me by a dancer friend in my Nia community—someone I trust because she is smart, funny and kind—the book began slowly, but I warmed to it, became intrigued and then mesmerized and then had to…
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Of course I would love the Friendly Street neighborhood where I live. It’s the official name of the neighborhood in Eugene because Friendly Street runs through its heart. It’s walkable. There’s a small grocery store that has everything you need. A food truck quad with sheltered dining. Four parks (two tiny, two large) within five…
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As I read Kathy Watson’s compelling memoir Last Morning at Nora’s Table, I found myself thinking about Joan Didion’s The Year of Magical Thinking. Both books hinge on a shocking death, but Watson’s story is, for me, the more powerful. Watson starts the memoir in the kitchen of her first restaurant, then reveals in well-structured…
