Week in Review: Week 47
Reading Time: 3 minutes Modern Thanksgivings are comic tragedies of tension, travel, parades, and commercialism. We put up with all this to focus on food and family. Where is faith? Continue reading Week in Review: Week 47
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Election Day (or days)
Reading Time: 2 minutes There is no right way or wrong way to vote. Voters must make their best possible choices based on what they know at a single point in time. Continue reading Election Day (or days)
Week in Review: Week 44
Reading Time: 2 minutes Research for my book and on the history of Bubble Wrap continues. Could inventor Marc Chavannes have had something the Nazis wanted? Continue reading Week in Review: Week 44
The season with no name
Reading Time: 2 minutes “Indian summer,” coined by an 18th-century farmer, is part of the charm of our language, and part of its curse. Continue reading The season with no name
Hanging it up for the year
Reading Time: 2 minutes I have two seasons: Hammock and Ordinary Time. We have just entered the latter. Continue reading Hanging it up for the year
Two of a kind
Reading Time: 2 minutes I suppose any writer must have big dreams sooner or later. My journal tells of visiting a college buddy, a budding novelist, in 1978. Continue reading Two of a kind
Week in Review: Week 41
Reading Time: 2 minutes Am I going to listen to that voice saying “Dammit, Fielding, you’re a writer, let me out and let’s get on with it?” he asks. I don’t know, I reply. Continue reading Week in Review: Week 41
Week in Review: Week 39
Reading Time: 2 minutes I encountered some forgotten wisdom from a young writer today: A 23-year-old me and his insights on writer’s block. Continue reading Week in Review: Week 39
One writer, many authors: Authors Day 2022 at Woodbury Library
Reading Time: 3 minutes Writers like to work alone. Authors have to sell books. About 35 were exhibiting and selling, and perhaps more traveling incognito. Continue reading One writer, many authors: Authors Day 2022 at Woodbury Library
It’s the Bill of Rights’ birthday — express yourself!
Reading Time: 2 minutes We like to think that the First Amendment the first because it enumerates our most important rights. But that’s not why. Continue reading It’s the Bill of Rights’ birthday — express yourself!