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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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...
Complete Sentences
In the cacophony that is the presidential campaign I have not seen any discussion how candidate Trump seems unable to formulate complete...
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...
True Detective
This HBO series started last year starring Woody Harrelson and Matthew McConnaughey as a couple of detectives in bayou country...
Ashland
For the first time in about ten years, we visited Ashland, Oregon and the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. We enjoyed two Shakespeare plays,...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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....
Readers
Yesterday, I drove to Portland to meet with a class of twelve university students who read and critiqued my historical novel Down The...
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...
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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