No Teleprompter, No Mercy

Author’s note:   This post is a bit of a departure from the usual. It’s something I wrote when my father was battling what we later learned was pancreatic cancer, a battle he lost in February 2011. It is part of a larger work in progress. I’m sharing it again here to bring attention to [...]

  The other day I was scanning Twitter when one of the guys I follow tweeted that he was at the library. People do things like that all the time on Twitter and on Facebook and so I didn’t think much of it. Personally, I’m more interested in things that might make it into a newspaper: [...]

Author’s note:  I was overwhelmed by the response to the first part of  “Sunset,” my work in progress about my father’s battle with pancreatic cancer, a battle he lost in February 2011.  The story continues here. Click here to read Part I. Part II.   Late January 2011:  My dad has cancer…somewhere.  It’s not in [...]

It occurs to me that while there are any number of places all over the world I would like to visit, there are probably thousands more right in the U. S. of A that I will not only never visit, but will probably never even know exist.  I imagine that would have been the case [...]