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April 19, 2010

Flee, yes, but … where?

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Flee, yes, but … where? The laundry women may first have heard the sound of war twenty or thirty...

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April 16, 2010

Rivers

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Rivers not only brought boat loads of wine, grain, fruit, and construction materials (and Norsemen), they also brought people...

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April 14, 2010

Engaged in War

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Rivers were the roads of France since before Caesar led the Romans into Gaul. Towns were built on rivers...

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January 5, 2010

2010

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January 1, 2010, was the first New Years Day that I woke up without calling my friend Marty. Marty...

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October 3, 2009

The Books of Others

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Alice called me during a book festival signing last Saturday and asked a rather pointed question — “Are you...

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September 6, 2009

In Memory of Characters

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My friend Mitchell, in charge of machine guns for Colt Firearms, was the first civilian flown to Pearl Harbor,...

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August 19, 2009

If Superman’s costume was indestructable…..

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…how did Clarke Kent’s mother make his costume? It took me over four years to write French Letters: Virginia’s...

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August 7, 2009

Spending Some Time on Canal du Midi

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In the mid 1600’s, days of quill pens and before there was a single paved road in America, France...

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July 8, 2009

Scriptorium

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Where I write….When I signed French Letters at Hastings Book Store in Amarillo a week or two ago one...

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