The Lost Cause
The tragedy in Charlottesville and ensuing cacophony has inspired me to offer my perspective of the history involved. The monuments in...
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D. W. Wilma
Nov 5, 20161 min read
Online discourse
I am being charitable in the term discourse. Recently I added a comment to a Youtube file, the audio of fire department radio...
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D. W. Wilma
Oct 10, 20161 min read
Complete Sentences
In the cacophony that is the presidential campaign I have not seen any discussion how candidate Trump seems unable to formulate complete...
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D. W. Wilma
Apr 2, 20161 min read
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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D. W. Wilma
Jul 1, 20151 min read
True Detective
This HBO series started last year starring Woody Harrelson and Matthew McConnaughey as a couple of detectives in bayou country...
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D. W. Wilma
Jul 24, 20142 min read
Ashland
For the first time in about ten years, we visited Ashland, Oregon and the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. We enjoyed two Shakespeare plays,...
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D. W. Wilma
Mar 1, 20141 min read
Twitter and Crimea
I learned how to follow topics with the use of hashtags. In this case #Crimea will bring up every tweet involving the crisis between...
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D. W. Wilma
Jan 3, 20142 min read
What are you listening to?
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...
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D. W. Wilma
Dec 15, 20133 min read
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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D. W. Wilma
Feb 19, 20132 min read
A funny thing happened to me on my way to the forum
One thing I like to do is participate in online forums (fora?). These are the discussion groups. Back in the early days of the Internet,...
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D. W. Wilma
Feb 19, 20131 min read
What are you reading? Steve Jobs
I am reading the biography of Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson which I recommend from a number of viewpoints. First, it’s well researched...
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D. W. Wilma
May 23, 20112 min read
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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D. W. Wilma
Mar 26, 20111 min read
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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D. W. Wilma
Jan 6, 20112 min read
Captain – Not
More silliness. Although I will grant the U.S. Navy absolute discretion in who they appoint as captains of their warships I wonder if the...
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D. W. Wilma
Jan 6, 20111 min read
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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D. W. Wilma
Jul 22, 20103 min read
Video Lynchings
The recent kerfuffle over the dismissal of a civil servant who was framed by a doctored video underscores something I’ve believed for a...
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D. W. Wilma
May 25, 20101 min read
What are you going to wear?
Steve Sadis, the producer and my co-writer for The Power of Snoqualmie Falls informs me that the video has been nominated for an Emmy....
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D. W. Wilma
Jun 9, 20092 min read
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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D. W. Wilma
Mar 11, 20091 min read
Marketing the Manuscript
I completed the major revision in my historical novel Down The River that the publisher was looking for. I had one of my writing...
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D. W. Wilma
Feb 9, 20092 min read
The Solitary Writer – Not!
Writing is an individual sport, but the writer is not always alone, certainly not this one. I started taking writing classes in 1995....
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