The Eastside View

photo: Rome, January 2004 A H, FERNET BRANCA . The first time we traveled in Europe, in 1974, we traveled with another couple, who we met in...

Y ES, IT'S ONE of the couple hundred books in the case of Books Waiting To Be Read: Harold Bloom's The Anxiety of Influence . Lou H...

T HEY SAY OURS IS a "Mediterranean climate," meaning wet winter, dry summer. We had just under a tenth of an inch of rain on Tues...

I WROTE ABOUT Michael Kincaid's little book Solar Margins here a few months ago, and the other day a letter arrived from him, with a ...

T WO INTERESTING CONVERSATIONS are going on within my user group (NCMUG, the North Coast Macintosh Users' Group). One concerns archival...

N OTHING MORE INTERESTING than the intersection of ethical quandary with practical quandary. Case in point: Eating in a restaurant (whose n...

Book conversation (among other matters) with two friends led me to look at recent reading notes in the PDA, among which this: 42 (?) affecti...

tuna-bean salad, Pasta Piatti, Ashland O UR ANNUAL WEEK IN ASHLAND , with three other couples, eating, going to plays, talking: Monday, June...

Fried egg and greens, Toro Bravo N INE DAYS IN PORTLAND but only four restaurants and two bakeries to report—and that in a cursory manner, ...

Giraffe riding bicycle, Portland, June 2007 P ORTLAND ALWAYS THROWS something unexpected at you. After having spent so many years in Berkel...

Tearing down the fallen-down barn Y ES, IT'S BEEN a long time. We flew home from The Netherlands May 2; spent a night in San Francisco;...

Little girl playing the bassoon, Amsterdam other photos: April 3-7: Leerdam-Buren April 7-11: Buren-Ochten April 11-15: Ochten-Wyler Apri...

De Kaasplank, Apeldoorn other photos: April 3-7: Leerdam-Buren April 7-11: Buren-Ochten April 11-15: Ochten-Wyler April 15-18: Beek, Apel...

Bospad near Nunspeet other photos: April 3-7: Leerdam-Buren April 7-11: Buren-Ochten April 11-15: Ochten-Wyler April 15-18: Beek, Apeldoo...

Anneke's green beans and tomatos other photos: April 3-7: Leerdam-Buren April 7-11: Buren-Ochten April 11-15: Ochten-Wyler April 15-1...