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Karen Gilden

The black and white of it

I’m a white woman. I am thoroughly white. My DNA is 60% English, Scottish, and Welsh. Scandinavia and Europe’s west coast make up the rest…

Feb 9, 2021

Feb 9, 2021

The Sunday after

It’s the Sunday morning after President Biden’s inauguration. A steady rain and predictions of snow find me indoors with a feeling of…

Jan 25, 2021

Jan 25, 2021

In search of higher ground

Strangely, I woke this morning thinking about a speech Alexander Solzhenitsyn gave at Harvard in the late 70s. I had written a paper about…

Jan 10, 2021

Jan 10, 2021

Early rising

Coming into the living room early this morning I caught a flash of color through the branches of a cedar tree. I went outside and looked…

Aug 4, 2020

Aug 4, 2020

Too damn long

I punched the numbers into the microwave timer and pushed Start: 8 minutes, 46 seconds. And then I stood in my kitchen and watched the…

Jun 5, 2020

Jun 5, 2020

Life on the curve

I want you to know I washed my hands before setting them on the keyboard. Don’t worry. There may be viruses in your computer but they…

Apr 6, 2020

Apr 6, 2020

Alvord

The Alvord Desert is 12 miles long and 7 miles wide (19 x 11 km). Located in the far southeast corner of Oregon at about 4000 feet (1200…

Oct 9, 2019

Oct 9, 2019

The Alvord Desert is 12 miles long and 7 miles wide (19 x 11 km).

At 5:30 a.m. on Sunday morning I woke to the still brightness of the slowly setting harvest moon. It lit the tent like daylight and I…

Sep 17, 2019

The Alvord Desert is 12 miles long and 7 miles wide (19 x 11 km).

Sep 17, 2019

Four hundred years

As you no doubt know, this year marks the 400th anniversary of the introduction of slavery into the United States. I wanted to know more…

Aug 24, 2019

Aug 24, 2019

The view from the porch

I had my coffee on the porch this morning but the warming sunshine called so I did three loops around the lake, where there are still baby…

Jun 18, 2019

Jun 18, 2019

Karen Gilden

Karen Gilden

I’m the author of four books, three of which are in print. My latest, published in 2019, is Life in Transition, a book of essays. I live in Portland, Oregon.

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