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The ________ 9_ Feature CI ac I íamas P rint WedNEsdAy, D ecem B er 5, 2001 I still don't know why anyone would want to stick her hands in my nfftuth I get to spend the next few weeks in and out of the dentist’s office, so you all get to go with me. First, I need to set the stage for you. My dentist is a petite blonde named Dr. Molly (I’m not making this up). I haven’t time to go into the hygienist yet, but we’ll get there. God is so good. Seriously though, the staff is pleasant and professional and, for my money, if you’re going to spend time horizontal, doing so with a Molly beats a Richard any day of the week. I realize this could heat up the argument over preferences, so let me nip this right now. After nearly gagging on something as small as that little drool sucker they leave in your mouth during a procedure, there is no way I personally could argue in favor of staring up at a dentist named Dick. Let’s move on. Marvin G. Baker Guest Columnist First the x-rays. Bitewings are the easiest to deal with. It doesn’t take much to keep the saliva in your mouth during this set. You sound like a snake with a lisp trying not to drown, but it’s better than lying about the “7-Up stains”on your shirt later. When the tech finished with those and started a more uncom fortable se ries I asked her what sort of wings these were. She re sponded by holding lip the front sight of a forty-millimeter anti-aircraft gun. Have you seen this thing? You’re supposed to hold it under your tongue between your teeth while they aim the emitter through it. As much fun as that is, I figured out how to get rid of it right away. Just yawn suddenly, like your Oreos are coming out to say hi, and that little torture device be comes sculpture on the nearest desk, real quick. Thanks to my U.S. military resistance training, the only thing that little X-ray of sunshine got out of me was blood type and next of kin. My victory was short-lived, however, as the Dentist herself soon ar rived. Now that we’re on the subject of first impressions, here’s a little advice. “'Sup puddin'” is not the best way to gain favor with the woman who’s about to go pok ing around your teeth with a steel pick. Neither is laughing at the Poindexter eyewear she needs to better see inside your yap. I couldn’t help myself, one second she was smiling at my wit and the next she had morphed into a de monic jeweler in Team Black & Decker coveralls. After surviving the x-ray tech, I wasn’t about to give them the satisfaction of cow ering in the chair, so I laughed to reaffirm my bravado. Little did I know that Dr. Molly had a sense of humor of her own to go with her surgical stainless. Faster than you can say “not on the first date,” I was flat on my back with a mouthful of latex.... < To be continued next issue Chrysalis continues to help writers develop, get published REBECCA CODAY is not limited to women only. “Guys can be in it and have been in the past,” said Li According to the dictio chen. nary, chrysalis refers to a Members meet throughout butterfly still in its cocoon the term each Wednesday stage; Chrysalis as a women from noon to 2 p.m. Pat starts writers group out by ask hopes to en ing who has courage “writ something "Some members... ers to grow and prepared to have published unfold their tal read and then various articles, short ents.” determines “We want to the order stories and poems for help people fur taken and magazines or newspa ther their writ pers." the time al Pat Lichen ing goals,” said lotted, ac Chrysalis leader Pat Lichen, the cording to current leader how many of Chrysalis. responses “In some cases that might be she receives. getting published, in others Each writer hands out cop that might be confidence to ies of her work then reads it put words on paper.” aloud. The group praises as Lichen explained that Kate well as critiques and may Gray, an English instructor, make written comments on founded the group about ten their copies before handing years ago with about two or them back to the writer. three members. Lichen gradu “The group is very useful,” ally took over as heir during said member Ginny Weber, re the last two years. “Now we tired from Clackamas Commu have a strong dozen,” she nity College as chairman of said. the Biology Department. “ Currently, there are no men You receive feedback as to participating, but the group how people receive your Contributing Writer work.” I got in the area. “I was an interpretive natu Weber, who began attend ing about two and a half ralist for six years with Mount years ago, notes there is a St. Helens National Volcanic wide age range in the group, Monument, leading walks from retired to high school and talks through the area.” All of this back age. She is writing a novel ground led to her I writing and pub about the ef lishing a natural fects of war on families. history series of the Northwest The setting AT ¿X A*- f she chose for referred to as *1 COMMUNITY COUtóES "An Uncommon her novel is Chicago in Field Guide.” There are 1967-68, when three Uncommon she was living there and rais Field Guides in ing her family. all: “Passionate “It was a very Slugs and Holly bitter time,” wood Frogs,” “River-Walking she says, de Songbirds and scribing Mar OREGON CHATTER Singing Coy- tin Luther and otes” King’s assas sination and riots and tanks “Brittle Stars and Mudbugs.” on the streets as she went to They can be found at local bookstores such as Powell’s. work. Lichen has a background as a naturalist, holding a degree in marine biology. “I came here from Ohio to work for Greenpeace, met my husband at Mount St. Helens. 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