Barbara Cervone

Public Agency and Pigs on a Hill Written by Barbara Cervone One’s sense of powerlessness these days can stretch wide and deep, from Washington to Uvalde, around the world and back. By comparison, the struggles... Read More

The Logger’s Daughter, Barbara Cervone, December 17, 2021 Tony and I began our cross-country trip this past August in the far northeast corner of Oregon, home of the Wallowa Mountains. Known as the “Alps of... Read More

When the Center Does Not Hold October 3, 2021 New and Recent Posts Late this August, as a red sun descended in the smokey sky above Grants Pass, an hour’s drive to my north, more... Read More

Postcards from the Rogue Valley “Begin at the beginning,” the King said, very gravely, “and go on till you come to the end: then stop.” ― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland This Land Was Their... Read More

There are whiter states in America, but when Oregon entered the Union in 1859, it did so as a “whites-only” state, the only free state to do so.  One hundred and fifty years later, Portland... Read More

Living in Ashland, you wouldn’t know there was much of a Latino community here. Salvador, who mows our lawn, laughs and tells me, “We’re invisible to you, but we’re here!”  A tourist town, thanks to... Read More