bobwelch23
Jun 6, 20134 min read
Going out on a literary limb
When She Who Endures Me is away at the coast or on a quilt retreat, it’s the go-to movie I watch alone: A River Runs Through It, Robert...
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bobwelch23
Apr 2, 20133 min read
Feeding the literary lake
One of my most meaningful evenings as a writer had nothing to do with me and everything to with my friend, workshop partner and fellow...
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bobwelch23
Jan 30, 20133 min read
Why I don’t believe in writer’s block
It’s one of the most oft-asked questions I get as a writer and teacher: “What can I do about writer’s block?” “Write,” I say. (I was...
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bobwelch23
Jan 16, 20132 min read
Neil Young’s new book
Remember that close-to-the-end scene in White Christmas when General Waverly is being feted at his heretofore empty ski lodge by guys...
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bobwelch23
Oct 31, 20122 min read
Wanna help sell books?
Occasionally someone will say: “How can I help sell your books?” I used to feel self-conscious asking people to do so, but then a woman...
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bobwelch23
Oct 31, 20124 min read
The R-G’s take on me
By Mark Baker The Register-Guard (Reprinted with permission) It’s a wonderful life. And a busy one, too — if you’re Bob Welch. And if...
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bobwelch23
Oct 24, 20121 min read
“Cascade Summer” is store’s staff pick
Thrilled that one of my favorite book stores in the world, Paulina Springs in Sisters, has endorsed my new book about hiking Oregon’s...
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bobwelch23
Oct 21, 20122 min read
► My so-called book tour
To begin an interview with me on Eugene’s KLCC recently, host Eric Alan referred to the “book tour” I was, uh, launching. I mentally...
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bobwelch23
Oct 1, 20123 min read
Trying to write it right
On August 10 at 7:35 a.m. I hit the “download” button of a program called “MyBook” and 77 files for my due-out-in-October book, Cascade...
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bobwelch23
Oct 1, 20121 min read
►Welch’s Nov. 5 Interview on Focus on the Family
Click here to hear Bob’s interview on Focus on the Family
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bobwelch23
Sep 1, 20122 min read
Earning my Wonderful Life wings
Pacific Continental Bank in my home town of Eugene has an interesting requirement for all new employees going through their orientation:...
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bobwelch23
Aug 30, 20121 min read
New Book! Cascade Summer
Bob has a new book that just came out Cascade Summer. Get an overview of the book Read a sample chapter Buy Now
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bobwelch23
Aug 1, 20121 min read
Latest Book: Resolve
Resolve: From the Jungles of WWII Bataan, the Epic Story of a Soldiers, a Flag, and a Promise Kept Sample Chapter ORDER NOW at Amazon.com
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bobwelch23
Jun 19, 20124 min read
The simplicity of sailing*
* I’m kidding, I’m kidding! The Great “At Last” Calamity of 2012 (In Which a Lifetime of Sailboat-Launching Problems Occurred in Three...
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bobwelch23
Jun 1, 20122 min read
Back to the woods and rivers
On August 20, 1905, Oregon wilderness wanderer John Waldo wrote a journal entry from the east slope of Mount Jefferson. In it, he quoted...
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bobwelch23
Mar 29, 20123 min read
The best 25 columns of all time
Mary White, subject of my favorite column. A WHILE BACK, Ed Russo, a Register-Guard colleague, suggested we read a book called Deadline...
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bobwelch23
Mar 20, 20122 min read
New book came easier than ‘Nightingale’
Ah, but some books come more easily. Last spring, in my post-Beachside Writers recovery week in Yachats, I read Laura Hillenbrand’s...
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bobwelch23
Feb 22, 20121 min read
‘Generations’: Music inspired by a book I wrote
A Eugene man, Dale Bradley, recently wrote me to say a piece of music he wrote was inspired by a book of mine he’d found at a garage...
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bobwelch23
Dec 31, 20118 min read
Thoughts of a nephew now gone
Today is the 17-year anniversary of the death of a nephew, Paul Scott Scandrett. In his honor, here’s a piece I wrote long ago in Where...
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bobwelch23
Nov 5, 20113 min read
Farewell, Andy Rooney
Longtime “60 Minutes” curmudgeon Andy Rooney died Friday night, exactly one month since his last show. Here’s a piece I wrote on him...
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