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		<title>Cowboy&#8217;s Overdue Honor</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 May 2011 18:38:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A long-dead Oregon cowboy and rodeo star, whose life I've written about and continue to research, is finally receiving the recognition he deserves.]]></description>
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		<title>Toys of Nature</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Oct 2010 01:04:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Atticus]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Amazon.com]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[We try not to over-indulge our five-year-old son. Still, Atticus has ended up with many more things than any kid can keep track of, much less play with. I could haul away all his toys, and he wouldn&#8217;t complain &#8212; as long as he was lording over this small creek winding its way to the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bucking Horse Suffragettes</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Mar 2010 04:17:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Recommended movies]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Shirley Morris]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[As guest curator for a recently opened exhibit, &#8220;Tall in the Saddle: the Pendleton Round-Up at 100,&#8221; I worked with dozens of people across the Northwest. Sometimes the project intersected with the creative work of others. Among them was fine artist Shirley Morris of Bend, Oregon, who&#8217;s making a documentary that I&#8217;m eager to see. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Beneath the Heavens</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Mar 2010 03:42:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This time-lapsed video perfectly punctuates a morning of snowshoeing with my wife, along the glacier-fed White River on Mount Hood. Shot 2,600 miles away on Mauna Kea, Hawai&#8217;i, the video reminds me of my insignificance in the universe and, at the same time, the wonder of being part of its grandeur. The photographer had this [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Old house vs. earthquakes</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 05:48:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been thinking of &#8220;The Big One.&#8221; Long before earthquakes devastated Haiti and then Chile, I wanted to have our 1920s Craftsman house bolted to its foundation with steel plates. That&#8217;s enough protection to qualify for earthquake insurance. The work begins tomorrow, ten months after I arranged for an estimate. Waiting until my wife and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sacrificing scenery</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 31 May 2009 17:53:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Columbia River Gorge]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[wind power]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Until the last few days, I hadn&#8217;t traveled through the Columbia River Gorge and seen the new price of protecting the planet. For several miles east of The Dalles, the bare ridge lines that for eons had starkly demarcated earth from sky now are scarred with wind turbines. Aligned like robotic sentries, they look like [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Alone</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 31 May 2009 06:56:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[South of the tiny hamlet of Pilot Rock along a lonely road, I saw an ancient barn. One end had collapsed. No one lives close enough in the desolate hills to have heard it. The rest of the building looked ready to fall in the next big wind. I ventured inside. Sunlight poured through holes [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sealing Up the Gold Mine</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Mar 2009 04:57:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Oregon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Outrages]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Writing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Oregon Historical Society]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Oregon Legislature]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Posting a comment on Facebook has landed me a radio show interview tomorrow. Topic: the implications of severe cutbacks at the Oregon Historical Society Research Library, where I spent much of the last two years researching this book. Thinking of what I might say on the radio, a metaphor comes to mind: the thrill of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Humane Efficiency</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Mar 2009 00:32:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Oregon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Portland]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Oregon Humane Society]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Feel like the country is overrun with greed and inefficiency? Hard not to these days. So these numbers sprang off a whiteboard at the Oregon Humane Society today: Animals adopted last year: 3,810 dogs, 5,197 cats, and 999 other (rabbits, hamsters, and similar small animals). Adoption rates, respectively: 99, 95, and 92 percent. Only medical [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Thrill of Authorship</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Jan 2009 06:58:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Oregon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Recommended books]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Amazon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pendleton Round-Up]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I worked on a book about a world-famous rodeo for 18 months with another writer, Ann Terry Hill. I also did extensive digging for old photographs. Recreating events from decades ago based on historical research was exhilarating. Nothing motivates me like the thrill of the hunt for hard-to-unearth information. At the outset, most of what [...]]]></description>
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