By Jim Heffernan I think maybe I’m a sucker for anything that has “invisible” in the title. It’s probably because the last 50+ years of my life have not progressed the way…
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BOOK REVIEW: Letter from Birmingham Jail by Dr. Martin Luther King; Join Jim for a Virtual MLK Event Tomorrow Jan. 20th
By Jim Heffernan I find it a mind-crushing collision of lightness and darkness that Donald Trump’s inauguration and Martin Luther King’s birthday are happening on the same day. It’s a dissonance that…
BOOK REVIEW: Fire Weather – On the Front Lines of a Burning World by John Vaillant
By Jim Heffernan The Los Angeles wildfires in January is what drew me to this book from last year. It may have started out as a dutiful trek in search of information,…
BOOK REVIEW: Holding It Together – How Women Became America’s Safety Net
By Jim Heffernan I think it was the words “safety net” in the title that drew me this to book. I’ve long felt that the deterioration in our society could have been…
DREW’S REVIEWS: Superman – Champion of the Oppressed
By Andrew Jenck Images credited to Warner Bros. Discovery The following essay contains spoilers for My Adventures with Superman. However, the series may still be emotionally investing should you watch the show…
MONDAY MUSICAL CLUB: Originals & Remixes – Free Concert Jan. 13th
Monday Musical Club of Tillamook will be presenting a concert Monday, January 13th @ 7 PM. The concert will be held at Living Water Fellowship, 1000 Main Avenue, Unit 12, Tillamook. “Originals…
What’s Happening at the Library? Check out Events at ALL Branches
Storytimes, workshops, fun stuff, useful stuff, really it would be easier to tell you what isn’t happening at the library! Here’s the list of story times at each branch; Teen book club…
BOOK REVIEWS: Jim Heffernan’s Top 20 (22) Books for 2024
By Jim Heffernan I take it as point of pride that I’m promiscuous. Not that way. I’m very proud of 58 years as a faithful husband, but I am promiscuous for books. …
BOOK REVIEW: Mental Immunity – Infectious Ideas, Mind-Parasites, and the Search for a Better Way to Think by Andy Norman,
By Jim Heffernan Our country is being torn apart by opposing ideas that sit upon uncertain foundations of fact and logic. Our collective consciousness is infected. I always have to wonder if…
BOOK REVIEW: Become America by Eric Liu
By Jim Heffernan This book is a collection of 19 “Civic Saturday” sermons given by Eric Liu in Seattle between November 12, 2016 and August 4, 2018. Like it says on the…
