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Colleagues
Jane and I are working on two writing projects, a new book of essays that go back as far as 30 years ago and a book of short stories on the Holocaust that I have been working on for the past year. I have categorized parts of the essay book which consists of published essays and blogs, the blogs revealing a writing style which has morphed greatly since years ago, much freer, more loose, chatty and conversational, perhaps the end result of blogging in which I just blather. As Jane read through the old stuff and then moved to blogs that are…
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Boundaries
I really don’t want to write again about Glenn Beck fulminating on Fox 5 views. As an old history major and secondary teacher of social studies for several years, I watched him this afternoon –one does not observe Beck, for he is as deep as a wall decal — take a few facts, twist and distort them, and come out the other end of Alice’s tunnel. Often he has an “historian” as an accomplice to support him in his big lies. He will take a simple historical fact and right before you eyes draw the most eely and exquisitely malformed…
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“Archipelago” Published at Subtletea.Com
David Herrle, poet, editor, at Subtletea has just published “Archipelago” online, the opening story from my now completed short story collection, “Working Through the Holocaust.” If you are interested in my new effort, take a peek. It always validates me, at least, when a story or section of a work in progress is accepted for publication prior to publishing. David has also published my “Glut and Loathing in Las Vegas” in the same issue. Before I knew it another blog was needed. About 9 months ago I was overweight to such a degree that diabetes was an incipient threat. I have seen…
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The Parable of the Sea Wall And Other Essays.
As I close down my latest work, “Working Through the Holocaust,” and waiting for a read through by Jane as to what to save and what to delete, I received a message from David Herrle, Subtletea.com editor, in which he suggested he wanted to publish my blog, “Glut and Loathing in Las Vegas.” At the end of his e-mail he asked if I would consider publishing my blogs and that started me thinking. Additionally, all along, Jane had urged me to consider the many essays I had written and had published as a possible book. And so it came to pass…