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“How long the coronavirus can survive on surfaces “The researchers behind the new study tested the virus’ life span in a 71-degree-Fahrenheit room at 65% relative humidity. After three hours, the virus had disappeared from printing and tissue paper. It took two days for it to leave wood and cloth fabric. After four days, it…
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Idiot Drivers I drive a small car, my husband’s little red Honda Civic hatchback, and one thing I that makes me crazy is when drivers of giant SUVs come right up behind me and tailgate. A couple of days ago I was driving home from work and an SUV merged from highway 26 onto highway…
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Essayist and memoirist William Kittredge was born in Portland, Oregon but lives now in Missoula, Montana, I think. He did a presentation at my first MFA residency about writing an essay. He insisted that he couldn’t tell anyone how to write an essay, and then he did. Define a problem by telling a story about…
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Explain this, as of 4 6 April: 219,564 residents in Jackson County; 2133 2269 tests; 33 confirmed cases, still no dead 346,868 residents in Marion County; 1567 1716 tests; 188 198 confirmed cases, 5 dead In Jackson county, as of 4 April, Oregon had managed to complete 1 test for each 102 residents. In Marion county,…
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Today, a walk creek to creek, a juvenile eagle, meditation on the value of lies, and a little brainstorming to prepare for Monday’s writing assignment. The best one is above, the lies below. So brainstorming. Monday’s nonfiction writing assignment was a great favorite with my students, the assignment they completed early in the year and…
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I posted a few days ago about my friend who, years ago, was accidentally infected by bluetongue, a disease she was studying in sheep. She insisted that she could not possibly have the disease, but that she certainly had the antibodies in her blood. The disease of cloven-hoofed mammals, was not supposed to infect humans…
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You might have guessed because my post yesterday is already halfway there. (Or, like a family member who read it, decide that this assignment is all too sad.) If you wrote a list of things you lost, today write what you found. You can write it as a talk-back to the lost list, interleave what’s…
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I am writing right here. Right. Here. Four friendships lost: Carmen died, and even though the break between us was because of things she did, it is only my fault we never made it up and there is no going back because she has died. When I finally got around to searching, I found only…
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I love Powell’s Book Store, well, of course I do! What’s not to love about a book store that shelves used and new books, the largest book store in the United States. (Perhaps still the largest in the world?) May the store continue to thrive. Founded in the 70s, the store was relatively good…
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