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Flee, yes, but … where?
ArticlesFlee, yes, but … where? The laundry women may first have heard the sound of war twenty or thirty...
CONTINUE READING →Rivers
ArticlesRivers not only brought boat loads of wine, grain, fruit, and construction materials (and Norsemen), they also brought people...
CONTINUE READING →Engaged in War
ArticlesRivers were the roads of France since before Caesar led the Romans into Gaul. Towns were built on rivers...
CONTINUE READING →2010
ArticlesJanuary 1, 2010, was the first New Years Day that I woke up without calling my friend Marty. Marty...
CONTINUE READING →The Books of Others
ArticlesAlice called me during a book festival signing last Saturday and asked a rather pointed question — “Are you...
CONTINUE READING →In Memory of Characters
ArticlesMy friend Mitchell, in charge of machine guns for Colt Firearms, was the first civilian flown to Pearl Harbor,...
CONTINUE READING →If Superman’s costume was indestructable…..
Articles…how did Clarke Kent’s mother make his costume? It took me over four years to write French Letters: Virginia’s...
CONTINUE READING →Spending Some Time on Canal du Midi
ArticlesIn the mid 1600’s, days of quill pens and before there was a single paved road in America, France...
CONTINUE READING →Scriptorium
ArticlesWhere I write….When I signed French Letters at Hastings Book Store in Amarillo a week or two ago one...
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