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No good deed goes unpunished: Part Three: Penicillin, People, and Libya: No longer the safest place on earth
ArticlesIn the 1940’s, American production not only succeeded in building tanks and bombers, it brought life to the desert....
CONTINUE READING →No Good Deed Goes Unpunished–Part Two “Great Expectations”
ArticlesRemember Great Expectations from high school English (if you were born before 1960) or the movie (Gwyneth Paltrow, Ethan...
CONTINUE READING →THE LAW OF UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES: No good deed goes unpunished. Part One
ArticlesCharles Dickens was the master of using coincidence as a literary device to portray social horrors. Oliver Twist condemned...
CONTINUE READING →War in Libya, nuclear devastation, and me
ArticlesSometimes I need to step down from my perch as author of historical novels, as lawyer and traveler, and...
CONTINUE READING →The Big Boys — My Favorite Non-Fiction 2010-2011
ArticlesYou know from my blog, or my reviews, or my Facebook postings, or my e-mails, that I have, shall...
CONTINUE READING →Boy oh Boy oh Boy — Best Reads of the Year
ArticlesLet’s start with fiction. To be blunt, there just isn’t enough good fiction. There is some rumble afoot that...
CONTINUE READING →The Perfect Gift
ArticlesWhat’s the perfect gift? That is the question, isn’t it, especially if it is better to give than...
CONTINUE READING →One degree of separation
ArticlesIt’s hard to imagine, but I knew someone who knew someone who lived through the colonization of Texas, during...
CONTINUE READING →A Friend of the family…..
ArticlesSeveral years ago we were away, in our adoptive home-away-from-home, when Alice conked out one afternoon. The details are fuzzy...
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