Hi, We’ve made a lot of progress, completed a few articles, and am working with my assistant Tess to finish my second Book of Books – but the blog is aloost defeating me. The changes in my voices’ pitch and volume throughout the day are simly too much for the dictation programs I’ve tried so …
New – a Donate Button & more…
If you love my writing, help me make more of it!
Return, Version ?
I am coming back. My reasons are many and various; i STILL CAN’T TYPE, but Jim Caldwell is trying to design me custom software, and it seems I can’t wait; I am bursting with news and ideas. In the added isolation of the virus, I get bored since I don’t yet have a typist for …
Very Various pics plus survivalist Jack Mormons
Pure fun for a change. First, a recovered photo ca 67 of Mike Conca, my oldest friend — have known him since 54, and still enjoy his company. What were we doing?? We were going to the Lime Rock Sports Car Race in Connecticut in my new and beloved Morris Minor Shooting Brake, which I …
Peter Bowen – Obituary by David McCumber
Montana novelist remembered as ‘a writer’s writer’ By DAVID McCUMBER Lee Enterprises Apr 11, 2020 Facebook Twitter Email Support Local JournalismIf you value these stories, please consider subscribing. Subscribe Facebook Twitter Email Print Save Peter Bowen, a novelist who found acclaim and literary success writing about the Montana he loved, died Wednesday after a fall …
STILL STAGGERING, STILL WRITING, AND STILL HAWKING
Writing goes well, if slowly. I’m walking badly, sleeping worse, and not typing. I need some light guns- maybe one of those pseudo- Italian Turkish autoloaders in .410 — I don’t do heavy any more. On the other hand, I’m flying a goofy Harris hawk and have acquired several new, old guns. Libby needs new …
The death of dogs
On a Good Dog O, my little pup ten years ago was arrogant and spry, Her backbone was a bended bow for arrows in her eye. Her step was proud, her bark was loud, her nose was in the sky, But she was ten years younger then, And so, by God, was I. Small birds …
BOOK SUGGESTIONS
Recently Tom McIntyre asked several of his friends to recommend books for a young woman who had not encountered them in college. My list follows. I once said that in my school the curriculum would be Classics, poetry, history, evolutionary biology, and how to run a chainsaw… Politics and philosophy. Sorta….. John Gray: Straw Dogs, …
Disclaimer
Some posts have been appearing here that are not mine. They are nothing offensive; in fact, one of them may have been an old post of mine from years ago, but they are NOT MINE. Until I get to the bottom of this, treat everything skeptically.
Found Object
While leading a birding trip in Patagonia, John Carlson of Prairie Ice photographed this sign.