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How do you know you’re a writer? If you wrote today, you’re a writer.

  • Re-engaging with journalism

    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…

  • A story about kids for adults

    Western author Louis L’Amour, wrote a really fine book with two children as the protagonists. “Down the Long Hills,” published in 1968, won a Golden Spur award and I don’t know how his publisher marketed this book, but the cover design is more classic western than middle-grade reader. I stumbled on it in the 1980s…

  • Mystery writers and Delphi Greece

    Author Helen MacInnes: “Decision at Delphi,” published in 1960. I’m about halfway into this book, and it is very dense with people and plot. It’s also really interesting how she and her contemporary Mary Stewart (“My Brother Michael,” also set in Greece, also published in 1960) were so influenced by World War II. That war…