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72Pesticides: Good, Bad, and Stupid People
Gone are the days of Paris Green and Lead Arsenic when pesticides lasted forever in the garden. One could almost say, gone are the days of hard pesticides when chemicals like DDT that remained...
3 comments67Master Characters
You want to write a story, book, novel, and an epic. First you have to create a compelling character. Someone who, the reader will relate with, and follow, through all the inns and outs of the plot to the...
5 comments60Two Weeks behind the Vac
I wrote about this event about two years after I experienced it, and placed it into my computer in a kind of journal. An elderly woman in church contacted me about a trouble a close writer friend of hers was...
1 comment57Reading Your Work in Public
Reading your Work in Public From what I heard, the number one fear in America is not losing your health care, but public speaking. I will try to give you some hints on how I have “spoken...
8 comments57Tell the Truth Bush, Palin
To Tell the Truth I recently saw a wonderful advertisement on television the other day. It featured a basketball player. During the fast played game, the basketball player made a foul in which the...
1 comment56American Businesses are shooting themselves in the foot
I knew this fact was true for many years. Today, I realized that I should put these thoughts on paper so that people might see the error of their ways. Laughing out loud. In the day’s mail, I...
3 comments54Writing Your Family Name
Writing Your Family Name “What’s in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.” William Shakespeare When I tell people that I’m planning a new career choice of writing, they...
8 comments59Life and Care of the Poinsettia
The Life of the Poinsettia I used to grow hundreds of thousands of Poinsettias years ago. The greenhouse I was working at started stock plants in late June. We had gotten fresh cuttings flown in from...
1 comment53We are Right
I wrote this a month before George W. Bush lying got us into a war with Iraq. This poem was published in a local paper. I rarely write poetry, maybe once a year. Another poem is at:...
6 comments56The Disease of Conservatism
Imagine if you will three illustrated panels. The first panel shows a child of five years of age playing and happily hopping, skipping, and jumping. In the second panel, a parent unties a knot at the top...
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