Who Doesn’t Like to Read?
Sometimes being an avid reader begins or ends in childhood…(click post title for video).
“Change of Life”
I invite you to subscribe to or purchase a copy of The Examined Life Journal, a a thoughtful and interesting publication that considers human needs and experiences of health and suffering. Thanks to them for…
Short Attention Span Summer Fiction
Our Iowa summer days seemed long and hot, due to drought, but the season stopped short of our expectations for rainfall and yield. It also held a few surprises. That’s not a cloud towering over…
History, Courage & Learning to Remember
In college, I was no history buff. Dr. Lynwood Oyos’ legendary Western Civilization class at Augustana College nearly sank me in terms of my grade point average. He was a brilliant and personable professor who…
Back in the Game, by Charles Holdefer: a Reader’s Review
Stanley Mercer might be called an accidental teacher. After fourteen years of pursuing his youthful dream of professional baseball through the U.S., Mexico and France, he returns to America, without success or his girlfriend, Delphine….
Mysterious Mathematics, Beauty and Truth in Fractals
Fractals fascinate the eye, but their beauty is more than skin deep. Their self-similar structure iterates, meaning it repeats a process where the result forms the starting point for the next step. Their structure originates…
Tragedy on the Great Plains: The 1888 Children’s Blizzard
Weather humbles us and we’ve bowed to it frequently during the last several years. Hurricanes, tornadoes, droughts, wind-whipped wildfires, blizzards and floods demolish our attempts to humanize our landscapes and keep ourselves safe. We can’t…
The Unfinished Work of Elizabeth D.
This review is based on a pre-release reading of the uncorrected, “galley” proof provided to me by goodreads. Novel Release Date: June 5, 2012. I just finished an early taste of summer vacation, with a…
A Skunk, Google Earth and an Anvil Salesman
Scene One: Goodhusband is making toast in the kitchen. “What’s that smell?” “A smell?” I concentrate and sniff. Nothing but toast. Gilda the white WunderSchnauzer paces at our glass patio door, sliding her nose along…
Will You Like Her?
The protagonist in the novel I’m editing has likeable qualities. If she were perfect, though, one couldn’t imagine her as a real person. It does make me wonder…how much does a reader need to love…
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