TURNER — The father had lost his little boy at age 5. Thirteen years later, he was still searching for a place to preserve his son’s memory forever.
It’s been over a full year since 2019 has come and gone and we were introduced to the COVID-19 pandemic not long into 2020.
“Here by the sea and sand nothing ever goes as planned”
Today is Tolkien Reading Day.
Coming back to the office was hard. After all, I’d been away for three months — not doing anything fun, really, unless gazing longingly at dirty pictures of Carl’s Jr. burgers I can’t eat anymore ranks as the epitome of a hoot.
Week 4 in the Big House, with a brief respite for wasted good behavior. I’ve known nothing but hospital nomenclature since early March, when I was readmitted to Good Samaritan Regional Medical Center in Corvallis for complications from a stroke. It’s my exclusive language now. I haven’t prep…
I was about three days out of the hospital when complications called me back. My stroke wasn’t finished with me yet.
From the quarantined entertainment desk
Throughout my elementary to high school journey, grammar was not my favorite subject. I tried to correctly label adjectives and adverbs and master diagramming, but I never could understand the process nor, more importantly, why it was important. I was getting by, but it appeared that everyon…
Three days later, I’m still processing Bohemian Rhapsody. It’s somehow both the right and wrong movie about Queen, the audiovisual parallel to a $5 collection you impulsively bought on a road trip in some backwater death-rattle town because you were dying to hear “Somebody to Love” right now.
To acknowledge Tom Petty’s mortality is to accept the mortality of the people I love most. And to lose Tom Petty is to tear an essential chunk from my existence and maybe from America’s own soul.
CORVALLIS – It’s a funny thing. When you’re little, you can’t wait to be what to a child is magnanimous, fantastical and brilliant – namely, grown-up – and when you’re finally considered grown-up, you want to run kicking and screaming back to the days when you ate too much candy and your cl…
CORVALLIS — Advice is a funny thing when it comes to moving to a new state. Words of wisdom are never in short supply, and the list of dos and don’ts is infinite.
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