Older columns by Eve with more wHine and less wine.
In the inaugural Books 101 column, male award-winning writers were highlighted. This week, of course, I feel compelled to focus on current female writers. And, as my mother once again has voiced her opinion on the subject, I am equally compelled to allow her the first choice: Nicole Krauss, The History of Love The oldest…
Timothy Egan, The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl: “On April 14, 1935, the biggest dust storm on record descended over five states, from the Dakotas to Amarillo, Texas.” How did that happen? And how many times? To what end? Farmers were driven to extremes to…
If you are reading this column, you most likely read newspapers, blogs and e-mails on your computer, magazine articles or trade papers, your mail, magazine covers in the checkout line at the supermarket, and, quite frankly, can’t sit still with a bowl of cereal without reading where sugar places on the ingredient list, even though…
I don’t know how it came to be but it did. After months of begging I finally got my employer to agree to let me cut back my hours and hiring another full time employee. Very soon I will be working only from the time Samantha starts school to when Samantha is out. But in…
Out of a school of roughly 800 students I was one of the interested goody-two-shoes that attended a presentation entitled, “Reading For Fun, Reading For Life” held by our school’s Title I Reading Specialist, Ann Boyd. I was a little disappointed at the small number or parents that could get away for the one-hour lecture,…
I did something really stupid. One of those “It could have changed my life” stupid things. Something that you may see yourself doing. It’s something I’ll never expect to happen to me again. Writing about it is my therapy. So here goes. As a columnist I sometimes feel criticized for sounding like a “know it…
About five years ago I introduced Signal readers to my husband’s family in Minnesota by way of a letter from their dairy farm. Although not pertinent to life in the SCV, I feel that my husband’s mother’s cousin is just as eloquent a writer as anyone published and therefore worth reading. I’ve italicized my favorite…
Why do Indian writers evoke more imagery than their American contemporaries? If you believe that reading prose should be as moving as reading poetry, you must pick up any of these recommendations, turn to any page, read a paragraph or two and see what you think. Maybe it’s our differences that allow for greater perceptions….
Maybe I should blame the cable company for charging so much that we gave up television five years ago. Or I could put the fault squarely on the shoulders of my neighbor, the reading specialist that gave us some unique ideas to get excited about the written word. Should I put most of it on…
My mother, she who knows all, recommended (Or should I say pushed and prodded and nagged…no, that would revert us all back to our child hoods) that I read a book on raising “only” children. The conversation went something like this: “You’ve certainly read enough parenting books, and taken enough courses on the subject, but…