Writing

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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April 22, 2009

Where there’s a Will

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Colleville sur Mer, France (Photograph taken by Ian and Wendy) The American military cemetery at Colleville is humbling, a...

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March 30, 2009

Marguerite Knisely to an American Bomber Pilot

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“I do want to let you know that those planes were a welcome sight to us. We watched them...

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March 23, 2009

Returning to New Orleans After Katrina

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My wife, Alice, is a graduate of Sophie Newcomb college, adjunct to Tulane University. We had plans to meet...

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