Writing

March 22, 2011

War in Libya, nuclear devastation, and me

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Sometimes I need to step down from my perch as author of historical novels, as lawyer and traveler, and...

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January 23, 2011

The Big Boys — My Favorite Non-Fiction 2010-2011

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You know from my blog, or my reviews, or my Facebook postings, or my e-mails, that I have, shall...

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December 30, 2010

Boy oh Boy oh Boy — Best Reads of the Year

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Let’s start with fiction.  To be blunt, there just isn’t enough  good fiction.  There is some rumble afoot that...

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December 23, 2010

The Perfect Gift

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  What’s the perfect gift?  That is the question, isn’t it, especially if it is better to give than...

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December 9, 2010

One degree of separation

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It’s hard to imagine,  but I knew someone who knew someone who lived through the colonization of Texas, during...

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November 30, 2010

A Friend of the family…..

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Several 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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October 14, 2010

General Paul Myers

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Have you ever stumbled into something that is too good to be true, but turns out to be true?...

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September 17, 2010

FRENCH LETTERS: THE STORY CONTINUES

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French Letters:  Engaged in War, is on the shelves and on the e-books — it’s launched? It is the parallel-quel to...

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September 17, 2010

Service for our country: A Meigs has been in our service since West Point was founded

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I just had the good fortune to have been invited by Stewart Vanderwilt to a lunch presentation by General Montgomery...

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