The ongoing joke at my computer user group meetings is the fact that I’m the facilitator. What I know about computers you can put into a thimble and still have room for an entire unabridged encyclopedia. But I’m learning. Last month we had a terrific presentation on...
I recently read an essay by Bev Katz Rosenbaum on the life and times of one of author Janet Evanovich’s main characters, Stephanie Plum, a rather ditzy female bounty hunter living in New Jersey. (Yeah, I know it’s a glunky first sentence, but it works.) In the essay,...
Every June I head for the serenity of the Wood River Valley in central Idaho. I used to call it my “detox center” after completing another full year of teaching. Today, even in my so-called “retirement,” an Idaho retreat still refreshes and revitalizes me. A retreat,...
Last January “Chicken Soup” was accepting stories for another volume in their popular series. This one is called “My Dog’s Life.” Well, I just happened to have a few heartwarming tales about the dog we had when I was a kid, so I promptly sat down and wrote four...
RAIN is the annual “magazine” produced by Clatsop Community College. But it’s more than a magazine; it’s really a beautifully bound book of at least 150 pages. Each December a call for submissions is posted in the newspaper, and at the end of spring quarter, they host...
