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Serendipity
The origin of this book came in the early 1990s in my family history research. I stumbled across a query in an old journal mentioning my...

D. W. Wilma
Dec 22, 20192 min read
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My First Podcast
I was honored to be interviewed on the Writers Groupie podcast. I moved my desk around so that my bookcase was in the background and I...
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Apr 2, 20161 min read
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Where is Norman Rockwell when we need him?
I got up at 6 a.m. to discover gifts on the front porch deposited by Santa’s helpers in the brown trucks. Saturday Evening Post of the...
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Dec 24, 20131 min read
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Selling and Buying
Today I bought and I sold via Amazon.com. I tried to buy toys for my grandsons the old fashioned way, but when I got there, the toy store...
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Dec 19, 20131 min read
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What are you reading? Hearing?
I usually have two books going at once, one a work of fiction and the other some kind of history book. With the Kindle I can have three...
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Dec 15, 20133 min read
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The Mill
I really need to get better at blogging. That’s a good New Year’s resolution, but I’ve never done New Year’s resolutions. My newest...
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Dec 14, 20132 min read
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Podcasts
Yes, an entire year since the last post. Not that I haven’t had anything to write, I just haven’t written it here. Here’s hoping I do...
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Oct 13, 20122 min read
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Another Voice
I recently published, via Amazon.com’s print-on-demand program Create Space, my historical novel Down The River. The story grew out of my...
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May 23, 20112 min read
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Published
My novel Down The River is now available through Amazon.com. A Kindle version will also be available soon. Buy it. Read it. Review it....
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Mar 26, 20111 min read
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PC Huckleberry Finn
The news item about a publisher cleaning up Mark Twain’s Huckleberry Finn to eliminate references to “the N-word” is both laughable and...
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Jan 6, 20111 min read
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Power For The People: A History of Seattle City Light
Yesterday Mind Over Matter host Diane Horn interviewed me on KEXP Radio FM 90.3 about my history of Seattle City Light. Click here to go...
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Nov 21, 20101 min read
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Publishing Update
The two books I did with the late Walt Crowley several years ago are now available through University of Washington Press. Power For The...
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Oct 18, 20101 min read
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New Books
I received good news this week. University of Washington Press is listing two books of mine in their online catalogue. The first is Power...
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May 28, 20103 min read
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New Contract
The folks at Turner Publishing Co. in Nashville have a new project for me, Historic Photos of Seattle in the 50s, 60s, and 70s. It’s the...
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Mar 25, 20102 min read
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Christmas 2009
It’s been a year of premiers, the big events that mark chapters in life. Where to start? We all strolled the red carpet to meet Kellen...
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Dec 10, 20092 min read
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A Bold History
The book launch at Queen Anne Books in Seattle went well. The book store staff (thank you Tegen) was very gracious and had a beautiful...
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Nov 6, 20091 min read
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Historic Photos of Puget Sound
My own copies are in and they are beautiful. The publisher is arranging local media interviews and a launch party. Stay tooned. #books...
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Sep 22, 20091 min read
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The Publishing Industry
I just read an article (online) about the most recent BookExpo America convention in New York which points out some important points...
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Jun 12, 20091 min read
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Readers
Yesterday, I drove to Portland to meet with a class of twelve university students who read and critiqued my historical novel Down The...
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Jun 9, 20092 min read
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A New Gig
Surfing the ads on Craigs List does work. They have two categories for writers and I found an ad that caught my eye. I am now under...
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Apr 24, 20091 min read
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