COVID-19 through a literary lens COMMENTARY | My conversations with librarians have been the bright line in a ‘world of words’ Paul K. Haeder | 31 Mar 2020 “Look, we have been on the front lines of all sorts of diseases. New strains of TB. Hep C. Even bedbugs are blamed on us. This virus doesn’t scare …
Reading and writing in a time of crisis By: Paul Haeder – Updated: 1 day ago Posted Apr 2, 2020 Editor’s note: this is the second and final installment of a two-part series on how stories aid Waldport’s homeless during difficult times. The first article was published in the March 27 edition of the News-Times. …
When the world gets crazy, the spoken and written word counts Posted Mar 19, 2020 This started off a few weeks ago as an article on an upcoming — now canceled, thanks to Covid-19 — fundraiser for our own community radio station, KYAQ. It was a fairly simple assignment – get under the surface of some …
my account closed by Linked In — doth protest too much! Real quick — Something like 2,900 connections on that pathetic Linked In are now gone, since that Microsoft propaganda engine “de-platformed” me from the bloody “social” media product. I didn’t save the names and contacts of some really fine people I was sharing information …
part-two of three parts — re-conning Viet Nam for April 30th Anniversary of the Fall of Saigon Fall of Saigon – 20 years later. It’s 1995 and I have Dan Yen, former vice mayor of Saigon (now Ho Chi Minh City), Le Ly Hayslip, author of When Heaven and Earth Changed Places and John McAfee, …
Bat Caves and Viet Nam – More than Just a War Log I want you to guard against those who demand that you die just to prove something. It is not that I advise you to respect your life more than anything else, but not to die uselessly for the need of others… for you …
A real micro-manager “At 550 percent of daily value cumulative nutrients, broccoli [microgreens are] the king of nutrients. It has the most complete nutrient package of any vegetable on this list. It is packed with Vitamin A, B, C and K. Plus, it has a significant amount of as iron, magnesium and phosphorus.” — Jason …
Trapped by the White Man’s Devils by Paul Haeder / March 21st, 2020 A certain amount of despair is, well, healthy. But that fine line between using it as a motivator and that other type of the neutering kind, or the type of despair that pushes one over the edge into depression, it’s a matter …
Book Review of Paul Haeder’s Wide Open Eyes: Surfacing from Vietnam by Linda Ford I can’t pretend to be a literary critic, but as an historian and one who’s plenty old enough to know something about the effects of the Viet Nam war, Paul Haeder’s stories about the lasting, inevitable impact of the Viet Nam …
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