Oregon Humanities

War and the Notion of Home

August 26 2010
Annie Dubinsky

I was sitting in my office last week reading a final report that one of our recent Responsive Program Grant recipients submitted when I realized how much I don’t know about war,... More

Our Shared Stories

August 13 2010
Raina Hassan

Last night, my husband, Amos, and I were cruising around on Netflix when we settled on an instant-play movie called Boys Don’t Cry. When it came out in 1999, I meant to go see it... More

New People

August 05 2010
Brian Doyle

Hmm. The moments that most changed the way I think about the world, o dear sweet jesus yes I can tell you those moments, with glee and gaping, still. There were three of them,... More

Long for this World

July 02 2010
Dave Weich

If developments in science could extend your life by five or more healthy, vital years, would you opt in? Probably, right?

Ten weeks ago, my company took on a project for a New... More

What Rises Up to Meet Us

June 23 2010
Carole Shellhart

After bicycling to Oregon Humanities to lead a weekly staff yoga session, our fearless yoga leader Maggie admitted that she was wearing borrowed pants. Not from her sister or her... More

Is Local Always Good?

June 09 2010
Reiko Hillyer

There’s an old joke: Did you know that in China they call Chinese food “food?” We could revise this joke to consider our current love affair with “local food.” It would go... More

The Only Blame

June 01 2010
Thorne Anderson

Last month, Sweden-based wikileaks.org published a classified US Army helicopter gun-camera video on youtube, and my inbox immediately filled with friends and acquaintances and... More

Lessons from Manno

May 24 2010
Apricot Irving

When my family moved back to Haiti, I was fourteen, the reluctant daughter of a missionary. When I was six, Haiti had felt like paradise: mangoes fell ripe from trees, kamion... More

The Place I Call Home

April 26 2010
Kimberly Howard

There are some days that roll out like a promise. Other days you turn the corner to unexpected joys. And still others where the people you meet along the way surprise you into... More

Democracy and The Big Sort

April 15 2010
Cara Ungar-Gutierrez

I’m reading Bill Bishop’s The Big Sort: Why the Clustering of Like-Minded America is Tearing Us Apart. I’d been meaning to pick this book up for about a year now and, as soon... More