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READING FICTION IN DECLINE?

Reading fiction has been in decline since the first person put a book down and said, “Not for me. Thanks.” A reader doesn’t finish every book. They don’t go into a library with the goal of reading everything. Maybe read everything one author ever wrote, but not everything from everyone. Which brings up one question:

HIDDEN SONGS OF THE OREGON COAST

People play their guitar in the basement alone looking for hidden songs. Hidden songs? There you are moving around the fretboard and something sounds different. You play it again. Nice. While you play you remember the old times you had when you were younger. Like yesterday.

COLD WET OREGON WITH EXTRA WATER

On a cold wet Oregon day the beach was covered as far as the eye could see, and since it’s flat you can see a long way. Jelly fish, man of war, or whatever it was, it was a mass die-off of squishy critters up and down the beach, a purple carpet of goo to […]

WE DON’T NEED NO EDUCATION, (FOR ANOTHER BRICK IN THE WALL)

From twitterX: I get yelled at for saying this but for many hundreds of years people went to university not to get diplomas or be employable but because immersion in the humanities was considered foundational to a good life, and school must return to its original purpose: the joy of learning. Doesn’t that […]

ONE IMMERSIVE EXPERIENCE AFTER ANOTHER, 659 words

Consider, if you will, the attraction industry’s ‘immersive experience.’ Go here, do this; Go there, do that. Repeat as needed, as desired, as often as you feel like escaping the life around you? If that’s the goal, sign me up. So far I’ve immersed in what no attraction industry would offer. Maybe I’m not in […]

HOW TO WRITE, WHAT TO WRITE ABOUT

How to write seems self-explanatory. Why bother is the real question. My Grandma on my Mom’s side passed this pearl of wisdom along: “Smart people talk about ideas, normal people talk about places, dumb people talk about other people.” With that mind, who are the big gossips in your group?

READING FICTION IN DECLINE?

HIDDEN SONGS OF THE OREGON COAST

COLD WET OREGON WITH EXTRA WATER

WE DON’T NEED NO EDUCATION, (FOR ANOTHER BRICK IN THE WALL)

AMERICAN IMMERSION CLASS STARTS NOW

ONE IMMERSIVE EXPERIENCE AFTER ANOTHER, 659 words

PROMISES MADE IS ONE THING, THEN WHAT

SOLVING PROBLEMS ONE WAY, (and the other)

LIVING HERE? LIVING THERE? KEEP IT UP

HOW TO WRITE, WHAT TO WRITE ABOUT

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