Anybody can write a book. Producing a book is very hard. It is right up there with producing a new product for a large company such as General Electric. I have done both and I am not sure which is more difficult.
A new appliance starts with the drawings and specifications. From these you have tools [...]
Often I write about how we are pieces of a movement that enriches the world. It’s the ‘Merican way. If you do your genealogy, you know that. Many Americans have enriched the world through medical research, industrial research and computer research among other ways. What do I mean?
Well, ours is the country large enough and [...]
Writing is not all agony. I write things like this for fun and then send them to a friend, Leland Meitzler, so he can post them on his blog. Besides, they don’t require a lot of research. That work has already been done years ago when I compiled a genealogy. The thing for you readers [...]
Tagged Family History, genealogy, Great Earthquake, Jeff Davis Grover, Jefferson Davis, Ku Klux lan, Leland Meitzler, MO, saints, sinners, St. CharlesI am still writing for a friend’s blog. Here is a recent effort that is self explanatory:
Beyond the Grave
Filed in Thomas Fiske articles on Apr.05, 2010
Another amusing article by my friend, Tom Fiske:
I saw an Internet article titled “Texting from Beyond the Grave.” New technology allows a person to embed [...]
I hate being spied on . . .
Tagged California History, CIA, Cold Cases, Hamburgers and Spies, Lewis and Clark Expedition, Nathaniel Pryor, Plymouth Rock, SepulvedaMaya Angelou, I am told, said, “There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.” I find her statement to be true. But I am running out of agony. That is, my recent book is about ready for the publisher and I have no desire to write anything else.
Once I wrote a [...]
Lately I have not been writing for my blogs. Instead I have been writing for another blog. It is Leland Meitzler’s Genealogy Blog. There I am a special category. It is called Thomas S. Fiske Posts” or some such thing. I asked Leland if I could put some of my Genealogy Posts on on my [...]
Every kid goes through a lot of first-time experiences. You know, first long pants like my older brothers had, first adult-size pillow, first bicycle, first BB gun and many other firsts a kid has to fight for and can almost taste before he gets them.
At the outer fringes of my youth and well over sixty [...]
Recently IE Magazine came out with its latest issue. It is dedicated to Industrial Engineers mostly in America and I am a life member of the organization. So the editors gladly gave me part of a page to tell about what I, a retired industrialist have been doing. Here is how it came out:
Sometimes the [...]
As I was writing yesterday’s post to this blog, I wondered who would be upset when my book, The Insider comes out. This is the actual story of NASA’s man who spent nine years flying into and out of the USSR during the Space Race and the Cold War. He was a space medicine scientist [...]
Tagged CIA, Cold War, John Kennedy, Khrushchev, Lend Lease, Lyndon Johnson, NASA, NSA, Richard Nixon, Russian, Space Race