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 [...]
Also tagged Cold WarGenealogy Blog, murder, Space Race, writing books, WWIIWriting 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 [...]
Also tagged genealogy, Great Earthquake, Jeff Davis Grover, Jefferson Davis, Ku Klux lan, Leland Meitzler, MO, saints, sinners, St. Charles(This is an edited post of May 31, as corrected by Kent Pryor, to whom I am very grateful.)
I just call it the Fiske curve because I don’t have any other name for it. Others may have found it and named it something else. In any case the curve sets out principles worth remembering about [...]