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the paper menagerie :: Article Creator Portland Author Alissa Hattman Shortlisted For 2024 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize For Fiction Portland author Alissa Hattman has made the shortlist for the nationwide 2024 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction for her first novel, Sift (The 3rd Thing Press, 120 pages, $24). After an open nomination process last April in which authors and fans alike could nominate fiction novels that represented ideas reflected in Le Guin's work, Hattman joins nine other authors on the shortlist. This year's recipient of the prize will be chosen by a panel of authors that includes writers such as The Handmaid's Tale author Margaret Atwood and The Paper Menagerie author Ken Liu. Le Guin was one of the 20th century's most prolific science fiction writers and lived in Portland most of her life. First striking critical success in 1964 with the beginning of her Earthsea series, Le Guin won numerous awards during her lifetime,...

toystory :: Article Creator Townlaw Rule Supreme At Ochiltree FATHER and son team, Robert and Bryce Sloan from the Townlaw Holstein herd ruled supreme at another impressive show of dairy cattle at Ochiltree, when their Holstein leader went one better than James Nisbet's beef champion.Taking the inter-breed title before going on to stand supreme of the show was Townlaw Hamish Lisa VG88, a second calver from the 190-strong herd run alongside 55 Jerseys at Darnlaw, Auchinleck. Bred from three generations of Excellent cows, she was paraded giving 54kg having calved in November. Securing the reserve supreme honours was James Nisbet's commercial bullock from Orchardton, Mauchline. On just its first outing, the nine-month-old pure Limousin bullock, named Razzle My Tazzle is by Lodge Hamlet and was bought at Brecon calf sale, in February. Reserve beef was a British Blue cross bullock from Stuart Watson, High Tarbeg. George and Jan Templeton, and dau...

creative nonfiction story :: Article Creator 5 Books Of Low-stress Nonfiction For Your Summer Reading List Every summer reading season, I recall stories of completely inappropriate books I've toted to the beach or pool. This year is no different. I'm currently reading a book I'll share in an upcoming newsletter, and it's not a flirty rom-com about a Malibu meet-cute – though I would love to read one of those if you have recommendations. (And by the way, we'll be sharing a fresh helping of romance recs with you soon, too.) That said, I do often misunderstand the assignment: I once spent a good chunk of a bachelor weekend sitting by a hotel pool reading Robert Crais's "L.A. Requiem." And when not reading by the pool? I read in my room. This week, though, I'm focusing on a different summer reading tradition: Pop culture-infused nonfiction, which is always a good choice for hot weather: breezy histories, jui...

fun writing :: Article Creator Writing: A Tonic For Aging Brains Why take up writing in your later years when logic and prevailing views consider that phase in life a period of decline? Although the decades beyond 60 are commonly seen as less robust physically and cognitively, some strengths accrue later in life. Problem-Solving and Wisdom Problem-solving, for instance, gets better with age precisely because our internal library of experiences broadens over time. That gives us more data to choose from to solve problems in a greater number of ways than younger people. The aging brain doesn't need to approach each situation as if it were novel. Over a lifetime, the brain's frontal cortex automates many processes through pattern formation. It uses a shorthand system to determine if something is familiar or not. If it is, it searches within its archives for a way to handle or resolve it behaviorally. This patterning is done with little ...