I don’t know Hal Morris. Never met him. I received his commentary from a friend and it resonated with me because of its honesty and the author’s palpable love of our country. I hope you will find it as poignant and authentic as I did. PROUD TO BE AN AMERICAN …
BY A concerned and worried proud American Do you remember your grade school science class when we learned about ‘transformation’? One day, the caterpillar stops eating, hangs upside down from a twig or leaf, and spins itself a silky cocoon or molts into a shiny chrysalis. Within its protective casing, …
For the next several days, I am reposting commentaries from Americans of all races and occupations who are as concerned as I am about this ongoing attempt to rewrite history and obliterate our country from within. I hope you will find them as illuminating and significant as I have. RACISM …
(A while back, I posted a series of pieces about how authors of fiction (and non-fiction) can use the “journalistic method” when it comes to learning the critical skill of observation. I recently received a couple of requests to republish that series. I posted Part Two yesterday. Here is Part …
(A while back, I posted a series of pieces about how authors of fiction (and non-fiction) can use the “journalistic method” when it comes to learning the critical skill of observation. I recently received a couple of requests to republish that series. Part One was posted yesterday. Here is Part …
(A while back, I posted a series of pieces about how authors of fiction (and non-fiction) can use the “journalistic method” when it comes to learning the critical skill of observation. I recently received a couple of requests to republish that series, so here is Part One. I will post …
Here, once again, is “something completely different” that I have culled from various emails and notes from friends and followers. As I did the other day, I am sharing some of these epistles and dispatches with readers as a way for all of us to disengage from the steady stream …
One of the more enduring activities of human beings has always been to imagine what the future will bring. We all do it, some more than others. It’s what separates us from the rest of earth’s creatures, most of which are too consumed with daily survival to think past their …
“And now for something completely different,” as they used to say on the old Monty Python show. Duriing any given week I receive heaps of emails containing bits of wisdom, humor, anonymous information, and lots of weirdness. Normally, I give these things a quick read and delete them. Today, however, …
The other day I was taking stock of what is going on in our country and I realized that this is no longer the country in which I was born and reared. It is an alien place that seems to have embraced George Orwell’s vision of nationhood—a place filled with …