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The word "travel" comes from the same root as the word "travail," meaning "hard and painful labor." This is not a coincidence.
The Eye offers sincere apologies for being so late to pick up on this, but right-wing columnist David Reinhard has left The Oregonian.
I’ve fallen and I can’t find my grandparents. Oh wait, there they are.In Italian, the expression "Tengo Famiglia" means more than just its
literal translation of "I hold family." The expression, as writer Joe
DiPietro (author of I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change) shows
throughout the production, is more about putting your family first.
Even though DiPietro's play focuses on an Italian-American family
living in Hoboken, New Jersey, the overall theme of the play transcends
cultural boundaries and appeals to the audience. The cast and crew at
2nd Street Theater give this heartwarming comedy about family, food and
faith legs and the story itself does the rest.
Friday Night 11/21:
Will Durst at the Tower Theatre
Yeah, yeah, don't give me any more BS about how you're so "worn out" by this year's election to talk about or hear anything about politics. Get yourself to the Tower Theatre tonight and take in the political hilarity of self-described "raging moderate" Will Durst.
Oregon Democrats and Republicans are dividing along classic ideological lines in response to the state's calamitous predicted budget shortfall.
Mike Dugan has been mentioned as a likely choice for US Attorney for Oregon, but it seems the Deschutes County District Attorney isn't too interested in the job.
The Eye will never be able to understand why anybody would want the job, but 15 people have applied for the late Bill Friedman's seat on the Bend City Council.
For new Oregon State head basketball coach Craig Robinson, helping his
brother-in-law win the presidency of the United States is going to seem
like a piece of cake compared to trying to win a Pac 10 conference
basketball game this season - let alone a championship.
Robinson -
Michelle Obama's brother - inherited a team that went 0-18 in
conference play last season and won only six of the 31 games it played.
Unfortunately for the Beavers last year, they weren't able to give a
concession speech mid-way through the season when they realized the
race was over.
"Mr. Anderson," my caller said last Wednesday afternoon. "I have a
mystery. What in the world is going on with the butterflies? I smashed
a beautiful orange and brown one on my windshield this afternoon - I
didn't think I'd ever see a butterfly fluttering about in November! Is
this the result of global warming, or what?"
That same day, driving
home from Sisters on Highway 20, I had the very same thing happen near
the 8-mile post. It was unavoidable, but it still saddened me. Killing
animals with my motor vehicle is something I try diligently to avoid,
but traveling along at 55 mph on a collision course with a butterfly is
not like avoiding a mule deer or elk. I saw and heard it hit the
windshield and then in a horror of horrors, it caught under my
windshield wiper right in front of my eyes and stuck there all the way
home.
Ahhhh, a two-hour trail run along the Metolius, a campfire, a mug of hot chocolate, a good book and a great dog.I first came across Pam Houston's colorful stories of adventure and
travel in magazines and more recently I read the book that won her
fame, Cowboys Are My Weakness. Last week, she visited Bend as one of
the guest authors for the Nature of Words and I wrangled my way into
her writing workshop. Pam, a single 46-year-old woman, has a house in
Colorado, teaches at a university, loves dogs and takes inspiration
from the outdoors for her writing. That sentence describes Pam Houston,
but applies equally to me, so you can understand why I sensed a kindred
spirit when I met her.
Hopefully, some of her words of wisdom
rubbed off on me to your benefit as a reader of this column.
Unfortunately, "Adventure Racers are My Weakness" just doesn't seem to
have quite the right literary ring to it to match her standards. I'll
keep working on it.
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