Tag: writing
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An attempt at flânerie in San Francisco: Part I, The Idea
I started the day restless and angsty: I made the mistake of going online first thing in the morning. My house in San Francisco now has wifi, so I did the standard online circuit of email, Facebook, newspaper sites and blogs before even getting out of bed. For a variety of reasons, this left me…
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Detritus
Last weekend, I drove to Charleston, Oregon, a small town on Coos Bay. I was visiting my friend who is studying marine biology there. The drive was four hours long, and I did it without stopping. On route 42, I passed through a large-scale plywood processing plant. It was complete with 18-wheelers coming and going,…
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Ashland
I was sitting, writing an essay I wasn’t excited about on the history of Oregon’s Native Peoples. It had been over a hundred degrees earlier in the day. I craved beer. I read about Barack Obama and Joe Biden having a beer with a Harvard Professor and a cop. This didn’t help. The only alcohol…
George Altshuler 