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December 15, 2015
Imposter–Ready for Launch
Two and a half years after ChinAlive was published, Imposter is finally ready to go. With the generous and talented help of former students, colleagues, and cold hearted, blood thirsty (but invaluable) editors , the book is ready for its marketing phase. Book bloggers and review agenices are being lined up, virtual blog tour …
October 4, 2015
Gone Fishin’
Went fishin’ once. Didn’t catch nuthin’. Now we live fifteen feet in front of Colvos Passage, a body of water that’s part of Puget Sound. It’s like living in front of a stocked pond–sea lions, Orcas, seagulls, blue herons, and fish fish fish.So I bought me a fishin’ outfit. Last night one fish after another …
September 30, 2015
Life’s Too Short
During the ten years Susan was dreaming about her perfect car, no one told her that the convertible would be a dead and dying model by the time she started cruising the island of Vashon. After seeing one of those Yahoo news lists—Ten Things American Aren’t Buying Anymore, I did a search of similar articles concerning …
September 25, 2015
I Stuffed It
Dropped Susan off on one our first rainy mornings and headed for home. At a stop sign a few blocks from her school, out of the blue, the car behind me pulls up along side and a back window slides down. A tiny voice inquires about the reptile in my back window.”Is that a real lizard?” …
September 24, 2015
Indie Publishing, Cooking, and Kids
This looks like a good head. It’s Thursday, blog day, and still considering all things. I’m just finishing up presentations for the Oregon Association of School Libraries and the Washington Library Media Association next month. The water is calm outside, waiting for the tide to roll in, to throw my line in. I bought a fishing …
September 17, 2015
Blasting Off–All Things Considered, by Bob
With great apologies to NPR for using a portion of their program title, the time is right to start my meager mouthing off. I’ve waited so long, for the right moment, the right niche, persona, inspired contribution–writer, storyteller, traveler, library guru to guys–that if I can’t find the time now, in retirement, I am hopeless. The older …
August 18, 2015
April 17, 2015
He’s Back
And how significant is this? It’s not, but stay tuned. Decided not to wait seventy six more days until retirement. So much bloggage to do, so little time.
July 13, 2014
Final Test
Vagabond Librarian–the Poem, for test purposes (abbreviated) There once was a time, not too far to go back, of the memory he had when his brain got on track. That very first time, when school set him ablaze, and the spark that he felt when he stepped through the haze, to bypass the boring and …
