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August 9, 2015
Time Pullers Giveaway Going Gangbusters
This has far exceeded my expectations, and there’s still most of a day left in my giveaway! It’s also risen to #48 in Free in Kindle Store in the general science-fiction category!
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,121 Free in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Free in Kindle Store)
#2 in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Science Fiction & Fantasy > Science Fiction > Hard Science Fiction
#5 in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Science Fiction & Fantasy > Science Fiction > Time Travel
August 8, 2015
June 29, 2015
May 9, 2015
Dear Old Mom, Back in 1951 (before she was MY mom)
Since Dad worked for the phone company, he was always posing the family with telephones.
April 23, 2015
March 2, 2015
I Read for World Read Aloud Day, 2015
This coming Wednesday, March 4, is World Read Aloud Day. In honor of that day, I have read the first four pages of my book and posted it as a video on YouTube, for anyone who would like to listen. Enjoy.
February 5, 2015
A Poetry Reading for Valentine’s Day
The Rose of Battle, by William Butler Yeats
November 3, 2014
September 22, 2014
One hundred years later
I recited “In Flanders Fields” to commemorate those who died in that pointless and tragic conflict we call World War I. So many deaths, so much suffering. And for what? In the Versailles Treaty negotiations, the Japanese were shunned and insulted, angering them into becoming even more imperialistic than they already were, and you know how that ended. And the Germans were punished so severely that they had the hyperinflation of the Weimar Republic, and an undying anger and desire for revenge. And don’t ignore the fact that many national boundaries that were arbitrarily redrawn, regardless of ethnic geography.
I believe a strong military is the best means to a lasting peace, but let’s not repeat the mistakes of the past. The best way to ensure that is to know and study those mistakes, and to learn from them. Let us not forget the past, lest we be doomed to repeat it.
September 18, 2014
Memories of Japan
I arranged this medley of four Japanese folk songs for flute and clarinet to help me remember my time in Japan. I took all the photos at the Misawa City Festival in 1988. Misawa is near Aomori, on the eastern coast in the far northern part of Honshu.
