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04.06.2021
I Have Been Away and In Trouble
…not literally, but figuratively. My backyard has become my obsession and the scene of struggles I could not…
04.06.2021
REVIEW: William Hogeland, Autumn of the Black Snake; George Washington, Mad Anthony Wayne and the Invasion That Opened the West. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2017.
Make no mistake, I choose not to review books unless I feel they are credible and well done,…
20.04.2021
Emily Discovers the Foxes
Dogs are my friends as a rule. Emily, our labrador youngster, is becoming a great one and has…
19.03.2021
Spring Comes To “Rocky Comfort,” Where the Mighty Have Fallen and Emily Terrifies the Squirrels
Spring is finally making a halting appearance in the north Georgia foothills and Covid may soon be winding…
02.03.2021
Love and Sorrow in a Time of War (1863)
Readers sometimes tell me stories that have been handed down through generations in their families. What follows is…
25.02.2021
Christopher Knowlton,Cattle Kingdom; the Hidden History of the Cowboy West. New York: Mariner Books, 2018.
Books about the cowboys and the long cattle drives that made them an enduring America archetype, beginning with…
08.01.2021
My First Epidemic
Before we were born, before the war, rains washed through the sparse topsoil and carved a great…
22.12.2020
Confession: We Have Two Dogs
My circle of readers is pretty intimate, so I hope I can entrust this secret to you. You…