Monthly Archives: June 2012

The Grand Adventure – Patrick Leigh Fermor

“You’ll simply have to read his books, if you want to understand about Greece,” my next-door neighbor told me, very shortly after my then-three year old daughter and I settled into Kyrie Panayotis’ first floor flat (which is Brit-speak for … Continue reading

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Fire Country

(This is a picture that my father took, of the 2003 Paradise Mountain fire coming towards their house) Reading the news about the fires burning near Colorado Springs revive memories of what it was like, when I was growing up … Continue reading

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Chapter from the Next Book – The Quivera Trail

(This will very likely be the next book – tentatively called The Quivera Trail – which follows the experiences of Dolph Becker’s English bride, Isobel. They have married in haste, for all the wrong reasons. She was desperate to escape … Continue reading

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Further Adventures in Book Marketing

Well, no one ever really considered our family or anyone in it as cutting-edge … although it might be fairly argued that we were mosying so slowly along behind everyone else in our practices and preferences that the cutting-edge, tres-up … Continue reading

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6-6-44

So this is one of those historic dates that seems to be slipping faster and faster out of sight, receding into a past at such a rate that we who were born afterwards, or long afterwards, can just barely see. … Continue reading

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This and That – Jubilee Edition

We were distracted Sunday morning by the Jubilee procession of the boats on the Thames, as covered by BBC America. Blondie noticed that none of her various friends in Britain were on-line Sunday morning; presumably they were all off at … Continue reading

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Old Time General Store

Visiting the Bergheim General Store and Post Office is a bit like going back in time to what a general mercantile over a hundred years ago. The Bergheim General Store is itself 109 years old; it stocks a a little … Continue reading

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