People, Politics, Plots, Paradigms -- and Stories
Posted on Jul 25, 2007 | Last Updated Nov 3, 2008
Metaphor and Reality
Cosmology, Philosophy, Science Fiction, Writing
Health Plan Axioms
Posted on Jul 18, 2009 | Last Updated Jul 18, 2009
Basic system considerations
health insurance, Medicare, pulpwood, merchant marine, 1949, General Semantics, bureaucracies,
THE REZ, PALESTINE, AND...WHATEVER BECAME OF THE NEANDERTHALS? (Feb 2010)
Posted on Feb 25, 2010 | Last Updated Jun 9, 2010
a discussion of colonialism in history
Indian treaties, Zionism, Manifest Destiny, Trail of Tears, Sand Creek Massacre, Wounded Knee, end-times, eschatology, Judaism, Christianity, Islam, and the Will of God
HEALTH REFORM AND THE PROGRESSIVE MOVEMENT (Sept 21, 2009)
Posted on Sep 20, 2009 | Last Updated Jan 12, 2010
Thoughts on the subjects
health care reform, philosophy, government, steamships, Lake Superior, 1948, Superior Wisconsin, Sault Ste, Marie, merchant marine hospitals
BOOK FLOGGING
Posted on Feb 27, 2008 | Last Updated Apr 6, 2008
promoting and selling books
writing, promoting and selling books, personal philosophy
Poem: Virtuality
Posted on Aug 29, 2007 | Last Updated Apr 12, 2008
spirit can be playful
spirituality,
Poem: Cross River Nocturne
Posted on Aug 27, 2007 | Last Updated Apr 12, 2008
American History
Minnesota, Koochiching County, winter, northern lights, dogs
ANYBODY DIS BLACE NEM JORJ WASHEENTON? (12/17/07)
Posted on Dec 17, 2007 | Last Updated Apr 7, 2008
Some Founding Fathers: a perspective
democracy; American Revolution; religion and government; slavery; George Washington; Thomas Jefferson; James Madison; political correctness; deism
HOW WE GOT WHERE WE ARE
Posted on Aug 20, 2007 | Last Updated Mar 19, 2008
The Third in The War for the Woods: a Trip Through Time
forest history, forest policy, American history
CREATIVE WRITING 101, PART ONE
Posted on Oct 1, 2009 | Last Updated Jul 21, 2010
Reviews, Reviewers, and Writing Fiction
reviews; critiques; truths; rules for writers; books on writing; Mitford; Karon; tell, don't show ; golden rule of writing; focus; story arc; data dumps; dialog ratio; norse sagas; ethnic character