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Still Lifes

September 30, 2019by pmdello 9 Comments

“In every heart there is a god of flowers, just waiting to stride out of a cloud and lift its wings.” Mary Oliver from The Kookaburras In late August of […]

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Oakland Noir

January 24, 2019by pmdello 10 Comments

Three of the last five years, my wife and I have Christmased in the San Francisco Bay Area. We visit our son, my brother, and a niece. Our routine is […]

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The University of Cancer, Part 4

December 10, 2018by pmdello 8 Comments

Multiple myeloma is a chronic incurable disease. When I was diagnosed in 2007, the prognosis was three to five years. Little more than a decade later, due to advances in […]

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Summer

October 7, 2018by pmdello 4 Comments

Summer came and went. It left behind a northwest parched by a succession of hot spells so extraordinary that even climate change deniers had their ‘come to Jesus moments’. Rain arrived, […]

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Divisive Devices

April 6, 2018by pmdello 9 Comments

Recently, my iPhone began to act erratically. New iterations of its operating system had rolled out. But the device could not effectively process the changes. Family and friends blared the […]

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Books

March 12, 2018by pmdello 5 Comments

Oregon’s reputation for tough winters suffered a setback in 2017/18. November, December, and January stretched like lazy cats across the blanket of the Northwest sky. They shed rain but mild […]

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Too Old To Die Young

December 12, 2017by pmdello 14 Comments

“It’s just … it’s like it’s always right now, you know?” Mason from Boyhood  An inversion layer spreads over the Hood River Valley. Temperatures drop to the high 20s at […]

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