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PERSONAL (12/31/2007)

Posted on Dec 27, 2007 | Last Updated Apr 7, 2008

personal, health, aging, death

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health, death, writing

ABOUT AGING: Part 3

Posted on Jun 16, 2008 | Last Updated Jul 23, 2008

My mom

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family, old age, health, personal history, senility, strokes, the brain

ABOUT AGING, Part 1

Posted on Mar 9, 2008 | Last Updated Oct 5, 2008

opening commens on senility (03/09/2008)

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old age, senility, health, personal history

CREATIVE WRITING 101, PART ONE

Posted on Oct 1, 2009 | Last Updated Jul 21, 2010

Reviews, Reviewers, and Writing Fiction

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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

Remarks on Poetry

Posted on Aug 24, 2007 | Last Updated Mar 19, 2008

style, purpose, criticism

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Scandinavian history

newsletter #3, Aug 12, 2009 (revised)

Posted on Aug 11, 2009 | Last Updated Sep 23, 2009

an update

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WRITING 102 - Writing Science-Fiction and Fantasy

Some Basics
Posted on Aug 13, 2010 | Last Updated Aug 13, 2010

If you ignore everything else I say here, heed this: to develop the ability to write well, write. Write a LOT. Thinking about it isn't enough.

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writing, tips, authoring

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

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forest history, forest policy, American history

Government, the Real World, and Politics: Part 2

Posted on Oct 14, 2008 | Last Updated Oct 29, 2008

Free Market Economics

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free market, market forces, economics, depressions, merchant marine, pork barrel, labor unions, Lake Carriers Association, hobos, railroad police, coal mining, Genghis Khan, history,

ANYBODY DIS BLACE NEM JORJ WASHEENTON? (12/17/07)

Posted on Dec 17, 2007 | Last Updated Apr 7, 2008

Some Founding Fathers: a perspective

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democracy; American Revolution; religion and government; slavery; George Washington; Thomas Jefferson; James Madison; political correctness; deism