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I’m Writing a Book
At some point we have all heard someone make that claim. Before we were writers ourselves we probably thought and sometimes even said “Yeah right! You’re sitting around watching Oprah and playing video games, unemployed again.” Admit it. When most…
The Statue of Liberty Poem
Today on NPR I heard a story about the current brew-ha-ha involving immigration policy and the Statue of Liberty. Long before this current heated conversation I wrote a book which had this poem, The New Colossus, as its central theme….
Test Driving the WordPress Social Media Auto-Push
The Interesting Authors are casting a net of notoriety just a bit wider, one step at a time. This post and all others will now be seen on: Facebook – https://www.facebook.com/interestingauthors/ Twitter – https://twitter.com/i_authors Tweets out from @i_authors
It Wasn’t a Bad Movie – Just Judged Incorrectly
I don’t often get to listen to Kai Ryssdal “Do the Numbers” on “Marketplace.” The show airs at an inconvenient time for me. No, I don’t own an identity theft enabling device (you call them “smart” phones but they are…
The Lyrics Have Us
Too often for humans music is something in the background. We “bud out” at work or just have it on while driving to drown out other noises. We don’t often, or at least often enough, listen to the lyrics. In…
Flash Fiction #2: Prompt – “Woods”
In Oregon, we call it the “Forest.” Why? I don’t know. Roof, Ruff, Tomayto, Tomahto, and hey, who could argue with Bill Bryson who wrote a most enjoyable book about a hike he took on the Appalachian Trail titled, A Walk in…
The Digital Divide
I recently got around to reading an article in Time magazine which was ticking off major infrastructure projects the current administration needed to fund as part of its “Trillion Dollar Infrastructure Package.” Yes, they talked about bridges and sewers and…