![]() ![]() Nick Jaina’s Get It While You Can was a 2016 Oregon Book Award finalist in creative nonfiction. Perfect Day received a 2017 Oregon Literary Fellowship. “ Martha Grover is the voice of Portland right now,” raved the Portland Mercury in their fall arts guide. Martha Grover’s memoir The End of My Career was a 2017 Oregon Book Award finalist. Perfect Day is distributed by Propeller Books. Our seventh title, sung's What About the Rest of Your Life, was a 2018 Lambda Literary Award finalist. Our eighth title, Mohamed Asem's Stranger in the Pen, is available now. Loaners: The Making of a Street Library was co-written by Ben Hodgson and Laura Moulton and is available now. Our ninth title, which we co-released with Street Books, came out on October 5, 2021. Joshua will appear in conversation with Elena Passarello at Powell’s City of Books at 7:00 p.m. Our tenth title, Joshua James Amberson’s Staring Contest: Essays about Eyes, will be released on May 16, 2023. I may still have an old rusty Spoon lying around somewhere, but I gave up the game a long, long time ago.“Perfect Day publishes infrequently but always makes something worth your time.” -The Willamette Week, 2021 She is in the Texas State Golf Hall of Fame and the National Collegiate Hall of Fame. She won 30 tournaments worldwide and was LPGA player of the year and top money winner in 1975. In the years that followed, Sandra won 21 LPGA tour events, including the U.S. Back down the hill to a waiting Little Turk who in 15 minutes had me safely across town at a pleasant little nine-hole affair on the campus of TWU. Who did I think I was - Don January ('53)?ĭesperately trying to keep my Brassie from clanging against my Baffy, I slowly backed down the hill, if not quite on little cat’s feet, then as surreptitiously as my PF Flyers would carry me. Homecoming queen and cheerleader, runner-up in the National Collegiate Championship, four-time winner of the West Texas Amateur and winner of the Texas State Amateur in 1963. ![]() Closer still, however, I realized that I was just a few steps behind the comely Miss Sandra Palmer ('63) of Kendall Hall (pictured). As I became closer, I saw that the someone was a young woman, probably a coed, and I briefly considered asking her if she would like to play a round with me. My bag was a patched-up MacGregor containing a couple of overused Dunlops and a sweat-hardened leather golf glove.Īpproaching the first tee, I could detect the unmistakably sweet "Thwack!" sound a golf ball makes when hit by someone who knows how to play the game. My sticks back then were vintage with proper names such as Mashie, Cleek and Niblick. Armed with that rationalization, Turk and I were soon climbing past the big cage where a real live Scrappy had briefly lived and on to the clubhouse and the first tee. I always kept my clubs in my ’51 Nash Rambler station wagon (named “Little Turk” for its faded turquoise patina) and, at any rate, one round of golf wouldn’t take so long. It had been a beautiful day with a sunny afternoon that had easily sabotaged my plans for a few hours of study at the library. As I walked past what had once been the first hole of the North Texas golf course following a football game at Apogee, the remembrance of a distant spring day during my sophomore year came to mind. It occurred to me recently that almost-forgotten old campus haunts can be powerful memory stimuli. ![]()
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