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Supermoon and journeys: Cheryl Strayed’s Wild
I write this on the night of the supermoon, high in the sky outside my dining room window. In her journal, Cheryl Strayed kept a list of the books she burned as she walked the Pacific Crest Trail:...
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River House, a memoir of the high desert
Three Sisters Before we head to our family reunion in Cannon Beach, Oregon, we’ve been exploring the high desert east of the Cascades. Of course, I had to find a book indigenous to this place, so I...
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Traveling orchardist country
Traveling in Oregon’s Hood River Valley, we’ve had marionberry syrup on pancakes at the B & B we’re staying at and huckleberry smoothies at an arts & crafts fair. Peaches, apricots, pears,...
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TransAtlantic inspires a look at our family history
Back from an Oregon vacation and an unforgettable family reunion in Cannon Beach. Several books traveled with me, of course, including Colum McCann’s TransAtlantic, which we’d chosen for our family...
View ArticleMountain, desert, iceberg adrift…and Books Can Save a Life, 2018
Adrift, and a timely new edition of a little-known book One year ago, my husband left for a two-week expedition to Antarctica. He traveled with 90 other tourists aboard a former research vessel and...
View ArticleWisdom for 2020 from an American prophet
“We can find ways to believe in survival and to live for the children….In our tribal and indigenous cultures, which have endured for thousands of years, every decision must leave no one behind....
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