bobwelch23
- Feb 5, 2017
- 4 min
The lesson Prof. Coleman taught me
Nothing puts life into context like death. And so it was that while at Edwin Coleman’s memorial service last Tuesday, I was reminded why,...
51 views0 comments
bobwelch23
- Sep 12, 2016
- 4 min
What I learned while teaching inmates to write
SALEM — An hour before I’m to present a three-hour writers workshop at the maximum security facility of the Oregon State Penitentiary,...
34 views0 comments
bobwelch23
- Jun 6, 2016
- 3 min
A brush with something other than fame
Appeared in Register-Guard newspaper, June 5, 2016 I was high on a ladder, doing something I’d vowed I’d never do again, when a neighbor...
32 views0 comments
bobwelch23
- Mar 13, 2015
- 4 min
Lessons from Dave Frohnmayer
A FEW YEARS AGO, Dave Frohnmayer and I were speaking at Northwest Christian University on the subject of leadership when he shared an...
33 views0 comments
bobwelch23
- May 2, 2014
- 3 min
First grandson turns 9
EDITOR’S NOTE: When Cade Welch, our first grandson, was born in 2005, I began a ritual of writing a once-a-year letter to him in The...
15 views0 comments
bobwelch23
- Feb 12, 2014
- 3 min
Living a Yahtzee life
They say if you want to make money in the writing business you find a niche and go to that place again and again. In other words, if the...
6 views0 comments