My cyber-friend Vera Marie Badertscher blogs at A Traveler’s Library. She recently published a book about the life and legacy of Navajo artist Quincy Tahoma. Vera Marie Badertscher gave me permission to share a bit of literary insight she got from a friend: A good friend just found out accidentally that her book was out of print. She had written…
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Of Shabbat, Pinot Gris, Smiles, and O Magazine
You may have seen this picture of me and the baby on the Contributors Page of this month’s O, The Oprah Magazine, which is on newsstands now. I have an article in the magazine, inspired by the excellent new book by Yale University’s Marianne LaFrance called Lip Service: Smiles in Life, Death, Trust, Lies, Memory, Sex, and Politics in hardcover…
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9 Things You May Not Know About Iceland
Iceland is a beautiful, fascinating country, full of interesting people, gorgeous vistas, and delicious food. I went there, my toddler in tow, to conduct research for the book I was writing. As I mentioned in this post about going to Iceland, Mr. Visa paid for the plane tickets. Here are 9 things about Iceland you may not already know… 1….
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When a Profoundly Deaf Baby is Born to Hearing Parents, How Should the Family React?
Before she became a mother, Jennifer Rosner never thought she would have to learn about cochlear implants. When her daughter Sophia was born at Stanford Hospital in July 2000, Jennifer fell instantly in love: “I was calm with our newborn baby girl nestled in the crook of my arm,” Jennifer writes on the first page of her memoir, If A…
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30 Ways to Save $100
Who doesn’t want to save $100? I’m not sure America ever got out of the recession in the first place, so I find it perplexing to hear people in 2011 anxious about a “double dip.” Aren’t we still dipped pretty far down? More than 44 million people living in America have no health insurance. There’s a homeless woman begging in Ashland…
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Wine (Not Whine) Writing
For the next twelve weeks I’m writing a wine lifestyle column for Southern Oregon’s World of Wine. Writing about wine, it turns out, is very eye-opening. Southern Oregon? Wine? As I’ve been writing about wine, I’ve discovered that there’s a growing wine industry in our region. Fertile soil with diverse microclimates that was once used for growing peaches and pears…
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