ANYBODY DIS BLACE NEM JORJ WASHEENTON? (12/17/07)
Posted on Dec 17, 2007 | Last Updated Apr 7, 2008
Some Founding Fathers: a perspective
democracy; American Revolution; religion and government; slavery; George Washington; Thomas Jefferson; James Madison; political correctness; deism
HEALTH REFORM AND THE PROGRESSIVE MOVEMENT (Sept 21, 2009)
Posted on Sep 20, 2009 | Last Updated Jan 12, 2010
Thoughts on the subjects
health care reform, philosophy, government, steamships, Lake Superior, 1948, Superior Wisconsin, Sault Ste, Marie, merchant marine hospitals
David Palter Reviews #1
Posted on Apr 6, 2008 | Last Updated Apr 6, 2008
some epic fantasy series compared
Terry Goodkind, Stephen King, Robert Jordan, JRR Tolkien, JK Rowling
A Habitable Planet
Posted on Jul 27, 2007 | Last Updated Mar 19, 2008
The environmental movement is not new
ecology, history, wolves
IN THE COUNTRY OF THE BLIND, by Michael Flynn
Posted on Aug 10, 2009 | Last Updated Aug 10, 2009
Book Review
Michaeel Flynn, Babbage, history, philosophy, personal history
CREATIVE WRITING 101, PART ONE
Posted on Oct 1, 2009 | Last Updated Jul 21, 2010
Reviews, Reviewers, and Writing Fiction
reviews; critiques; truths; rules for writers; books on writing; Mitford; Karon; tell, don't show ; golden rule of writing; focus; story arc; data dumps; dialog ratio; norse sagas; ethnic character
EGOLFS VOLDEMARS BAKUZIS
Posted on Mar 27, 2008 | Last Updated Apr 6, 2008
a brief reminiscence/memorial
Latvia, Germany, USSR, personal history, history of World War Two, immigrants, forestry, forest ecology, education, research, synecological coordinates, Baltic University
Where you been, John?
Posted on Oct 5, 2008 | Last Updated Oct 19, 2008
my three month absence explained
writing, blogging, aging, Great Northern War, Stockholm, Helsinki