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Oct 31, 2016
Halloween 2016 - The Great Pumpkin
Among my projects for this past year has been ongoing research for my medical novel, set in the American West in the late 1800s. SHADOW...
Oct 29, 2016
Welcome Home Chance
October 2016 We welcomed home Chance Beaumont Milligan on 14 October 2016, a rain-soaked Friday in northern California. Born on 2 July...
May 25, 2016
May 2016 - Stanley Cup Edition
CONGRATULATIONS! SAN JOSE SHARKS - WESTERN CONFERENCE CHAMPS! It has been hard on me – not to feel the hope!! The family of Tomas Hertl...
Feb 1, 2016
Volume I - Book One: Camille
Composing L’AUBE 2016 Admittedly, I wrote THE DAWN with the French sensibility, aspiring to one day translate it into French. It is...
Jan 6, 2016
January 2016 - Epiphany
This time of year is always an awakening of sorts for me, although I am often led to such awareness by previous realizations. And so it...
Dec 25, 2015
Christmas 2015 - Gifts from Writers
Christmas is a time for love. There are perhaps as many kinds of love as there are kinds of people, but love, in essence, is a...
Dec 1, 2015
December 2015 - Purity in Visual Art
A while back I watched a brief documentary about the modification or re-formatting of theater motion pictures for television viewing....
Nov 11, 2015
Pets, Real and Fictional - Introduction
November 2015 Our beloved beagle, Bootsie, was a profound source of inspiration for me to complete THE DAWN. On a sunny, warm day in...
Oct 31, 2015
Halloween 2015 - Free Market Masquerade
I suppose it was just a matter of time during this “eternal” recession (and the eternal “recovery”) before the free market became a...
Oct 1, 2015
October 2015 - Romancing the Fairy Tale
At times I feel that the fairy tale must be rescued – not by me, of course, since I am, according to Dear Husband, not a rescuer but a...
Sep 25, 2015
February 2015 - Discipline
The Writer Speaks: Discipline The discipline of a writer is not a constant effort. It is more like an energy field that has ebbs and...
Sep 1, 2015
September 2015 - Lessons from Jane Austen
It was with some hesitation if not trepidation that I approached writing an essay about Jane Austen. Not that I am unfamiliar with this...
Sep 1, 2015
Veteran's Day 2015 - To Be An American
To Be An American To be an American is to be proud of where you are. To be an American is to count every shooting star as the one that...
Aug 20, 2015
Progress Continues . . . English Lit
Update to Mid-August 2015 - Progress 25 April 2021 Progress continues in many facets and fashions where English literature is concerned....
Aug 10, 2015
Mid-August 2015 - Progress
It was with supreme happiness that I formally marked my progress in the Eighth Edition, Volume One, of the Norton Anthology of English...
Aug 1, 2015
August 2015 - Belief
We live in a cynical age, though just how cynical is impossible for me to tell since I’ve only lived, at least consciously, in this age....
Jul 14, 2015
Bastille Day 2015 - Voltaire
14 July 2015 François-Marie Arouet was the name of the French writer who, once fame came to him, invented his own anagram-nom de plume,...
Jul 1, 2015
July 2015 - Paradise
I have a unique vantage point in California. Born in New Jersey and raised there during a time of the early decline of the Industrial...
Jun 15, 2015
Mid-June 2015 - Fiction or Fact
15 June 2015 It’s all very confusing to me. People read fiction as if it is fact, and they watch reality TV as if it is real. Not having...
Jun 6, 2015
June 2015 - On Leadership
To savour the day and follow the promptings of one’s heart: this bold deed means “to lead,” particularly by example. Discussions of...
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