Wordsmith
Welcome to the world of memoirs and novels. Like so many others, I’ve often wondered what it would be like to a published author of a real book. I’ve been a writer for nearly as long as I can remember. As a child I wrote stories but my penmanship was so poor nobody was able to read them. By junior high school I’d switched to entertaining my friends with comic strips. Easily printed words were the key to my success. College was a place to develop writing skills and styles and during my career as an educator I had the opportunity to write professional papers and a newspaper column.
The 1980s brought computers, the World Wide Web and blogs. I decided to write a memoir blog for my grandchildren that turned into my first book, “50 Shades of Grades, My Journey Through Wacadeemia.” It is a hilarious and nostalgic journey of a boy who did so poorly in school that he ended up with a Doctoral degree.
Nostalgia came easy so my next project, “Three Lives of Peter Novak,” is a look back 100 years to my hometown and the immigrants who built it; their struggles and joys. Peter Novak made a deathbed promise to his wife that he would tell his history. This book tells their story.
My most recent short story, Filthy Lucre" has been published in two anthologies. It's All in the Story, California, edited by D.P. Lyle and debuted late last year. One Million Project, Fiction edited by Jason Greenfield was just released in February, 2018. The story tells of three college … [Read More...]
Thank Goodness 2017 has ended. Let’s take a look back. The year is 1909. Over one hundred years ago. What a difference a century plus makes! The average life expectancy was 47 years. Only 14 percent of the homes had a bathtub. Only 8 percent of the homes had a telephone. There were … [Read More...]
I have a cat who thinks that she’s A Singapora if you please. Of course, I think that she’s confused. A Singapora? I’m amused. Simone was rescued, but you see, She thinks that she’s a pedigree. And who am I to say she’s not? Or challenge such a school of thought? Her ice blue eyes are … [Read More...]
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