December 3, 2012

Father, Rebel, Dreamer by me alone, is the result of the three-author paperback, Fathers, Rebels, Dreamers. When that paperback book could no longer be shipped easily and cheaply, I decided to publish my own contributions to that book as a solo e-book. The result is a very different, emotional, passionate; it took me enormous courage…

November 29, 2012

“Is my pronunciation wrong?” the lady wanted to know. And I thought: What did it matter whether she had got the pronunciation right or wrong?  Like many Americans who travel the world and are none the wiser for it, she had gotten the entire culture wrong, the entire people wrong, the entire world outside the…