Jeffrey K. Walker's Blog, page 15
March 24, 2019
Sublimity of Stooges
[I’m finally back in the US of A after an interminable biz trip in Qatar. Jet lag and the necessity that I pay some attention to the long-neglected Kay-Kay means I’m recycling an old post this week, but one of my and Kay-Kay’s favorites. What with the lunacy in both Washington and London these days, […]
March 17, 2019
Oh, la Toilet (Paper)
It’s time to have That Talk with you. Perhaps well past time. (No, not THE Talk. If you haven’t had that one yet, please contact your parents immediately. Better yet, contact your father directly, particularly if you’re a woman. Because fathers like nothing more than having THE Talk with their daughters. Really. Trust me.) I […]
March 10, 2019
Writers Writing About Writers Writing
[I’m still knocking around Qatar on an ever-lengthening biz trip for The Day Job. My time card says 74.5 hours and there’s still one day left in the week. So not much time to write a new post. Barely time to sleep. Hope you’ll enjoy this one from last year on one of my perennial […]
March 3, 2019
My Gulf Package Vacation
Sabah al kheir, habibi! Al salaam alaikum! (And that exhausts fully two-thirds of my Arabic vocabulary.) I’m now well into the third week of my extended-stay vacation in Qatar, so here’s a blog from the road. Actually, this is a business trip I’m undertaking for The Day Job, that bane of all creative artists everywhere […]
February 24, 2019
Can’t We All Just Get Along, Insha’allah?
[I’m still on the road in Qatar with The Day Job and working crazy long hours. Funny thing, eight time zones away means you get TWO work days–you finish up in the Mideast just in time for the emails and phone calls to start coming from the USA. Since I’m sitting in a hotel room […]
February 17, 2019
The City That Care Forgot
[It’s been a hectic and exhausting week of international travel–and I’m writing this in a Starbucks on the Persian Gulf waterfront in Doha, Qatar, where I’ll be until 9 March. No time for a new post this week, so since Mardi Gras season is cranking up in my second hometown of New Orleans, I thought […]
February 10, 2019
Water Balloons Against the Wall
After reading my author bio detailing my 35-year inability to hold a job, I’ve often heard people say, “Your life has been so exciting!” My usual reply—not entirely self-deprecating—is, “It sounds a lot more exciting than it was. I mostly remember being tired.” Also, I recall being stuffed in a lot of airplane seats, of […]
February 3, 2019
I (Don’t) Love New York
Full confession—and I’m still conflicted by this—I lived in New York City for five years. I know, I know, shocking. But with therapy, I’m recovering. What possessed Kay-Kay and me to pull up stakes from our beloved Virginia and move to NYC? Well, at the time it seemed like a grand idea. I was offered […]
January 27, 2019
Two Stiffs Writing Hist Fic, Part the Third
Jeff: Well, here we are again, wheezing on about being historical novelists while mud wrestling with our various doses of Impostor Complex. Let me start by saying congrats on Book 2 of your medieval fun-and-frolics trilogy coming out! Let’s get the advertisement out of the way up front. You want to give us the vital […]
January 20, 2019
John Tyler’s House and Modern Memory
Today’s topic is… John Tyler’s House. Or alternatively, memory and history. ‘Cause they’re all kind of jumbled together for me right now. I live in the Commonwealth of Virginia, the Cradle of Presidents, the Old Dominion, Britain’s first colony (if you don’t count Ireland and Newfoundland). The Virginia House of Delegates, née House of Burgesses, […]
