This is an article in the Washington Post by John Feinstein, a great friend of West Point athletics. The subject is basketball, a sport near to my heart. It’s about the season that has unfolded for the St Louis Billikens this year after they lost their head coach, Rick Majerus, to heart disease. It is […]
A Golf Course Like No Other – For Veterans
Blogging With Video, Hoping to Go Viral
This is an article from the NY Times Personal Tech Section by Kate Murphy on the subject of using video in your blog. Right off the bat Kate reveals what you may already know: 90% of YouTube videos are painful to watch. So, I immediately began to revisit my cringes at watching my own video […]
High Tide on Blizzard Day
This is a YouTube video of the Blizzard that hit the East Coast on Feb 9, 2013. The footage is the high tide surf out in front of our home at Cape Newagen, Maine. http://youtu.be/7Fw7ITC1jd0 Did you enjoy this article? Subscribe to my blog and you’ll never miss my periodic posts! Just enter your email […]
Masters of the Craft – Wm. G. Tapply – The Worthy Villain
William G. Tapply is the author of about 40 books, including more than two dozen New England-based mystery novels. Hell Bent: A Brady Coyne Novel is the most recent. Tapply’s handbook, The Elements of Mystery Fiction: Writing a Modern Whodunit, is used in writing classes and workshops across the country. He has also written a […]
Review of “Southeast to Panama” – Robert C. Devine
Devine’s lifelong passion for sailing serves him well as a crewman aboard a catamaran sailboat bound from Puerto Vallarta to Fort Lauderdale via the Panama Canal. Indeed, he casts himself as the narrator and protagonist in this tale of adventure, intrigue and romance. The plot revolves around a disparate hired crew of four men who […]
Dust Off Your 10 Minute Play for the “Pint-Size Competition” in the UK!
The original deadline for this competition has passed, but the basic info is still interesting! This is a competition that last year had 235 entries from around the world for the top 10 entries. There is a small entry fee. You can submit a play electronically. The plays are all performed in pubs, so […]
Review of Such is Life – Jeri Walker-Bickett
Jeri Walker-Bickett says in her introduction to her collection of short stories Such is Life that the stories “reflect the attitude that sometimes stuff simply happens, and rather than reflect on it endlessly, there are times a person needs to accept things and move on. I’m drawn to characters who are a little down on […]
List of Play Selections Announced – Not My Year
The Maine Playwrights Festival selections have been announced. I entered a short play, but it did not make the list. Disappointed? Sure. But, best of luck to the playwrights who made the list. Here is the list of selectees: http://www.acorn-productions.org/pages/Playtitles.html
Book Review of Mama’s Madness – Billy Ray Chitwood
Chitwood’s novel tells the story of Tamantha Preen, a fictional character based on a real person who terrorized her family in northern California. Tamantha had a real or imagined depraved upbringing, and she is hell bent to pass depravity on. She murders two daughters and seems determined to make it three if her daughter Tammie […]