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...

The tragedy in Charlottesville and ensuing cacophony has inspired me to offer my perspective of the history involved. The monuments in...

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...

I saw the first episode of the first season of Game of Thrones As of this writing I have finished Episode 8 of Season 2. Or is it Episode...

Remember when, for two weeks in December, the truck pulled up in front of the house to deliver that package from the grandparents?  That...

Rather than get into a TLDR situation, I’m going to break things up. How to listen to audio books and podcasts. Most listening these days...

As posted here before, I have begun to explore audio books in addition to hard copy books and e-books. In the past month or two I have...

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...

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...

I am reading the biography of Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson which I recommend from a number of viewpoints. First, it’s well researched...

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...

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....

About everything I can get my WiFi around. The Kindle Santa brought me has transformed my lierary life. I have purchased and downloaded a...

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...

The two books I did with the late Walt Crowley several years ago are now available through University of Washington Press. Power For The...

Today I was interviewed on KUOW FM 94.9. The segment is twelve minutes condensed from an hour conversation with producer Dave Beck. The...

Yesterday I had a book signing, probably one of the fantasies of those seeking to be published. The wannabe author imagines being seated...

I received good news this week. University of Washington Press is listing two books of mine in their online catalogue. The first is Power...

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...

Six-year-old Alice lies half reclined on the stretcher struggling against asthma to breathe. Her alveolar sacs are paralyzed and her...