Perhaps six and a half years is simply too long in one blog place and I have worn out my welcome?
Tag: books
If We Cannot Travel…
Obviously casual international travel is not happening currently. Thinking back, before air travel, and particularly before steamships (like Titanic), in the age of sail reaching Europe from the U.S. regularly took 4-6 weeks and longer. (If the ship did not sink and you made it alive.) Short getaways were unknown naturally...
The History We Always Live
Two decades ago, I was a lecturer in history and political science, and I heard often from students in the U.S. that they felt they could not relate to American history. I realized I wanted to find a way to help them better do so.
Confidential Email (Again) To A Friend
I thought I'd write back after your last missive, because I have to ask: Are you kidding? You must have been drunk. Or have they put something in the water in Vermont?
Across The Country… And Back
Me: “It is great to be able to socialize with people in person again.”
“I have never been to Brazil, but I know it is there…”
Try to “prove” history itself. As an exercise, I regularly asked new history and politics students to “prove” yesterday actually even occurred.
“Non, sire, it is a revolution”
When in late August and September 1789 word first began to reach the new United States of America of the upheaval of two hundred thirty-one years ago today that had occurred in the capital of America's closest ally...
“So what’s it called?”
I started with them in 2016 and this will be the third novel I have written featuring these characters in their time. They are now moving into their forties...
Freedom Of Speaking
My concerns are family and friends and even an employer, but those are PERSONAL. If I don't face prison for my opinions, I have freedom of speech.
This Fourth
In 2020 as Americans yet again we are extra-engaged in reflecting upon what we were and what we are, what we believe, whether we really act on what we state we believe, and how we may put such beliefs into better practice.
The Heart Of Writing
Yesterday was something of a "milestone" in writing the planned new book. I have all of the chapters "framed" from beginning to end...
By The Book
I knew a Frenchwoman with diabetes and more than once she did that right in front of me, so it ended up in one of my novels.
The Names
I try to make names properly reflective of a time and place. It’s never easy. Sometimes I just see one somewhere, or on someone, and I have an “Ah ha!” moment.
“25” Strangers?
Writing fiction thankfully still escapes ... efforts at "standardization" and "formalization" and must always.
A House (Always Somewhat) Divided
There is ... a small ... segment of American society of a "supremacist" bent that seems forever unwilling to admit or even able to comprehend that the rest of the world is not by definition inferior or the planet Mars.
