product José Saramago, The DoubleISBN: 0151010404Translated by Margeret Jull Costa

No writer has impacted me to a greater extent in the last four years than Jose Saramago. Blindness was a gift from a good friend and from the first I was captivated, by style, by substance, by story. The Double is the latest among several that [...]

It nearly slipped under the radar until I recieved the letter from Peg yesterday. That’s Peggy Browne from the “Browne Family Farm” out near Baker City. Peg wrote to warn me that Bill Sizemore wants to raise my insurance rates.

I notice that Governor Kulongoski’s people are posting his campaign blogs to Lefty Blogs. Which leaves me with a dilemma. When every Democrat, no matter how centrist, adopts “left” or “progressive” as a self-descriptive label, then what meaning can those labels possibly retain?
Sorry, Guv, but there are minimal membership requirements to the club. How [...]

We are ready for a change. Sometime in the next several months, PattyJo and I will be moving out of P-town to the wilderness of Eugene. We love this town we have called home for the last dozen years (and off and on since the seventies), but the patina of our favorite small big-city is [...]

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My friend Fred says that a world with fewer men would be more peaceful and he tells me that Harper’s has an article about baboons and what happens when the aggressive baboons are suddenly gone. He says that the aggressive males had all gotten poisoned eating at a human dump. The females in the [...]

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The Children of Men, by P.D. James

Published in 1994 in the U.S. by Warner Books, copyright 1992 by P.D. James
P.D. James is an English author and is most well-known for her mystery novels. Several of these have been made into episodes for the BBC television series Mystery.
It has been twenty-five years since any human [...]

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(you see his image everywhere now. Ernesto “Ché” Guevara is hip. his face is on the little red journal i bought at Powell’s. i write in this book as i commute around portland on the trimet system.)
Having purchased this empty book, this potential journal, I find it isn’t blank. There is already a stain [...]