Continue Reading The Humanity of the Moment. Rembrandt van Rijn and Henk Pander at the Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education IT SEEMS TO BE the rule these days: every time I visit a new exhibition at the Oregon Jewish Museum and Center…
Continue Reading Possible Worlds. Last week I came across a short interview with some notable writers all focused on the climate crisis. Rebecca Solnit, Thelma Young…
Continue Reading Women and Words Layli Long Soldier’s (Oglala Lakota) first full-length collection Whereas (2017) won the National Books Critics Circle award and was a finalist for the National Book…
Continue Reading Women and War A bit of housekeeping first: this website had crashed and it took more than a week to get it fixed. Sorry for…
Continue Reading Breasts and Beyond. “When you find out that you are ill, your priorities are shattered. One moment you are in a boat, and the next…
Continue Reading Seeking Distraction Walk with me. Walk, I said, not run, I can’t keep up. Running would make me tired, though, helping with sleep….
Continue Reading Enlightening Legos Having written almost enough to fill a weekly quota on Monday, I figured today I’ll share someone else’s observations – conveniently offered…
Continue Reading Call for a Commons: New Directions at the Columbia Gorge Interpretive Center Museum “History is who we are and why we are the way we are.” – David McCullough, American historian (1933- 2022) *** I’m curious: how…
Continue Reading Seeing Red Last night I watched a movie, Tár, Todd Field’s 2022 film starring Cate Blanchett (fabulous performance) as a famous female conductor whose…
Continue Reading Double Standards. On days when I cannot control the chaos in my brain, I sometimes turn to my desk drawer and tend to the…
