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Experience Thank You Sir May I Have Another

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 people tell you they are writing a book, even if…

Roland HughesAugust 5, 2017August 2, 2017

Experience Society Thank You Sir May I Have Another

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. Here is a short excerpt. “I still can’t see where…

Roland HughesAugust 3, 2017

Experience Finance Reviews Society Technology Thank You Sir May I Have Another

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 really idiot phones) so subscribing to the podcast doesn’t make…

Roland HughesAugust 2, 2017December 2, 2017

Experience Stories

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 order for us to actually listen to a song in…

Roland HughesAugust 2, 2017February 8, 2021

Experience Fiction Flash Fiction Stories

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 Woods. That was the beginning of a conversation I…

Gregory LambAugust 1, 2017December 2, 2017

Technology Thank You Sir May I Have Another

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 lead water mains, but they also talked about Internet infrastructure.…

Roland HughesJuly 31, 2017December 2, 2017