I’ve been trying to forestall this announcement for a while but can delay it no longer.  Earlier this year I hinted that the demands of self-publishing and promoting my memoir, Getting Lost to Find Home next November might require me to publish these blogs less frequently for a whi

Heart Land is a fictional memoir of a bright and reckless boy growing up in rural Ohio in 1939, at the close of the Depression and before America’s entrance into World War II.  Ockley Green is a sleepy farming community where a kid with an active imagination is as likely to trick h

Susan Stoner and I have been producing, Just Read it, a 10 minute YouTube book review series for over two years.  When I first proposed it, I doubted Susan or her cameraman husband, George, would be keen.  But they agreed to give it a try, and we’ve been having fun ever since.  W

Several months ago, I broke with the last of my 4 publishers.  I’ve had 4 because the first  became ill and closed the business.  Another bought a company that held my contract and  turned out to be a crook.  Law enforcement eventually shut him down.  A third tried to change t

Recently, a former student contacted me.  She was organizing a high school reunion which included several of my former pupils.  She provided the time, date and location of the gathering, then asked if  I’d care to attend.  I was flattered, naturally, but more touched by her clos

I admit it.  I can’t talk and chew gum at the same time.  Keeping my blog afloat while I finish the third edit of my memoir is beyond me.  I have 60 pages to go and at the glacial rate of 3 pages a day, I need to devote another 20 days of uninterrupted time to complete this versi

While I’ve been away, no one in Washington has been sleeping.  Unlike my memoir, which makes slow progress, politics never  has writer’s block or worries about stopping to research facts. I’ll write some opinions about the world stage over the next few days.  Then I’ll retu

The time has come to begin the third rewrite of my memoir. The manuscript has laid fallow for a month, so I will look at it with fresh eyes, correcting imperfections and doing my best to serve my readers. When it reaches print, it will be the best effort I can make at this stage of my

Since my brief hiatus in July, when I entertained a former student from South Africa, the last few weeks have been busy.  I taped 4 new episodes of Just Read It. (Click) That’s the ten minute book review program I co-host with Susan Stoner, author of the Sage Adair mystery series.

“O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!”*  My former student from South Africa is coming to visit.  Having stood fixedly before my computer, pouring out nonsense or no-sense 5 days a week for the last 7-and-a- quarter years, I’m going to take a holiday.  I shall be absent from my p