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

I am being charitable in the term discourse. Recently I added a comment to a Youtube file, the audio of fire department radio...

In the cacophony that is the presidential campaign I have not seen any discussion how candidate Trump seems unable to formulate complete...

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...

This HBO series started last year starring Woody Harrelson and Matthew McConnaughey as a couple of detectives in bayou country...

For the first time in about ten years, we visited Ashland, Oregon and the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. We enjoyed two Shakespeare plays,...

I learned how to follow topics with the use of hashtags. In this case #Crimea will bring up every tweet involving the crisis between...

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...

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...

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,...

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....

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...

The news item about a publisher cleaning up Mark Twain’s Huckleberry Finn to eliminate references to “the N-word” is both laughable and...

The recent kerfuffle over the dismissal of a civil servant who was framed by a doctored video underscores something I’ve believed for a...

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....

Yesterday, I drove to Portland to meet with a class of twelve university students who read and critiqued my historical novel Down The...

I completed the major revision in my historical novel Down The River that the publisher was looking for. I had one of my writing...

Writing is an individual sport, but the writer is not always alone, certainly not this one. I started taking writing classes in 1995....