page contents Google

Another Moment Of All American Serendipitous Patriotism

September 8, 2018 by

    “If you’ve ever wondered what you’d have done had you lived during the era of slavery, the Holocaust, or the Civil Rights Movement — whether you’d have stood & spoken up; whether you’d have intervened to help someone or been complicit in harming them through your silence — you have your answer.   […]

Filed Under: BOOMER YEARS Tagged With: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

WHO NEEDS A BOOK TRAILER?

June 11, 2016 by

It starts with a book, then a book trailer. A book trailer is a preview, like the movie previews you watch before the movie you paid to see. Tonya Hamilton wrote a book, Wrestling With The Devil. A review of her book made it to BoomerPdx. We like books around here, the idea of books, […]

Filed Under: Who's Up Tagged With: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

SEC FOOTBALL AND LANDFALL

August 31, 2015 by

SEC Football Is Ingrained In The Soul Of The  South, As Demonstrated At Powell’s Landfall Book Launch. Remember the last literary reading you attended? An author sat beside a stack of books, read a few pages, took questions, then signed copies. It’s the way it’s supposed to be, nice and traditional. The audience knows what […]

Filed Under: Sports Tagged With: , , , , , , , ,

LANDFALL BOOK TOUR WITH AUTHOR ELLEN URBANI

August 28, 2015 by

Write A Book, Do A Book Tour, Then What? Ten years ago Hurricane Katrina blasted the Gulf States along the Redneck Riviera. How bad was it? Driving from Louisiana to Florida on Interstate 10, I was surprised how far back the houses started. Except they didn’t always start far back. Foundations remained from big places […]

Filed Under: What's Up Tagged With: , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

PORTLAND BLOGGER & ELLEN URBANI

June 5, 2015 by

Willamette Writer Thrills Portland Blogger. Join a writers group, they said. It’ll be fun, they said. They were right on both counts. Join Willamette Writers and have some fun. Some meetings are more fun than others, but they all begin with promise. Show up early at the Old Church in Portland to network with other […]

Filed Under: Who's Up Tagged With: , , , , , , ,