It takes a lot of perseverance to write a book. I should know because I have finished ten of the things. It would have been easy, so easy to lay a half-written book aside and promise myself I would get back to it some day. And then wait for that day to come. It never [...]
Tagged Cold WarGenealogy Blog, Family History, murder, Space Race, writing books, WWIIRecently 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 [...]
The best way to get over the agony of writing a book is to begin another book. I just sent to a publisher my book General Morgan’s Legacy. It is a novel about a modern man who stumbled across information about the Confederate General John Hunt Morgan as he escaped from a Yankee [...]
A few days ago I was invited to the retirement party of a principal of a highly successful middle school. I had not seen him for three years, or the school or the teachers. But there was a time when I knew them all quite well, because I had worked at the school [...]
Cryptograms fascinate me. While I am told that poets make very good writers of prose, I am no good at poetry. But I find that cryptograms help me visualize words.
You know what cryptograms are, a statement by someone in which the letters of the words are all substituted by other letters. I [...]
The humorist Calvin Trillin was quoted as saying, “In modern America, anyone who attempts to write satirically about the events of the day finds it difficult to concoct a situation so bizarre that it may not come to pass while his article is still on the presses.”
Calvin was not especially interested in science. But if [...]
This very day I was asked a very important question by a fan who loves my blog (yes, there is one). She thought I was wise enough to know all kinds of things and asked,
“What is the purpose of Daylight Savings Time?” It is a timely question because sooner that usual we [...]
One of the more interesting parts of writing something original is doing the research. Yesterday I got a call from the NSA, a super-secret intelligence agency. They wanted to tell me about the work they had done in response to a request I made.
I have been writing about someone who was involved in the space [...]
I can guess how they felt, the two teenagers who wrote me thank-you notes because I gave them copies of two of my books at Christmas time. The kids probably felt embarrassed at having to submit their writing skills to a man who writes books. But they did a good job.
The reason I know how [...]
The sub-title of my Blog is “The Agony of Writing.” For the past week it should have been “The Agony of Re-Writing.”
What a shock it was when I tried to look at my 1&1 Blog-web site last week and found that it had disappeared. At first I thought it was something I did [...]