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Category Archives: Writings by Wordsmiths and Others
The Twelve Days After the Twelve Days of Christmas
Lightweight but fun to write….so for your holiday enjoyment my take on the well known song: The Twelve Days after the Twelve Days of Christmas Gifts The Day after Christmas, the partridge (or doves?) gave to me, The bird flu, what … Continue reading
To Let You Eat Cake
I am reading Stephen King’s book, On Writing. In it he says, “When you write you tell yourself a story. When you rewrite you take out everything that is not the story.” That quote has produced varied thoughts for me. … Continue reading
Second Acts
F. Scott Fitzgerald famously said, “There are no second acts in American lives.” I have been pondering that quote for a while. Certainly this was true for Jay Gatsby, the anti-hero of Fitzgerald’s most famous work, The Great Gatsby (1925). … Continue reading
And Now You Know the Rest of the Story?
My mother had a thing for Paul Harvey. She loved to listen to his radio broadcasts and in particular to the stories he told. Harvey broadcast his own daily news taken from the headlines, filled with the foibles of humanity, … Continue reading
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Getting A Toe in the Door to my Dreams
You all know the saying about what the three key things are in selling a house…location, location, location. I don’t know about you, but the key for getting almost every job I ever got was in “who did I know” … Continue reading
Making a Dent in the Universe
Steven Jobs suggested that we all should embrace a goal to “make a dent in the universe.” There is no question he did. An inventor, creative designer, innovator, and marketing guru, Jobs succeeded in changing the computer industry, the digital … Continue reading
Giants Among Us – A Tribute to Steve Jobs
As an epic, my novel, The Call, is filled with grand characters, admirable heroes and heroines. As the military leader of the best cavalry in the land Lord Edmond saved his country, then turned his back on the tributes to keep … Continue reading
Helping life make sense and making sense of Life.
Joan Didion said, “I write entirely to find out what I’m thinking, what I’m looking at, what I see and what it means. What I want and what I fear.” But you don’t need to be “an author” to do … Continue reading
In the Ashes of My Brothers – a 9 11 Remembrance of my service at Ground Zero
American history is filled with iconic moments that live forever in everyone’s memory. They change the course of events and drive our collective lives as a people. Some of you could tell of December 7th and Pearl Harbor. I can … Continue reading
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