My Insights
My latest thoughts, stories, and content here.
On the Edge of Things
To grow up in the northwoods was to grow up on the edge of things. On Mother’s day, Highway 17 filled with cars heading north past patches of dirty snow...
for whom I write
Siege of Leningrad In the winter of 2008-2009, Patrice and I taught English in Moscow to young Russian business people between the ages 25-40. English is the world language of...
Spirit Falls as an Electronic Book
Spirit Falls is now published as an ebook in multiple-formats I went to Colorado with four goals; the first to write 10,000 new novel words (succeeded) and the second was...
History 419, 42 years later
September 7, 2010 A clap of thunder ricochets down Park Street in the space between the Mosse Humanities Building and Chadbourne Hall. Winds off Lake Mendota drive sheets of cold...
In her homeland, in my homeland
On 1 October I served as a Wisconsin Book Festival usher for Kao Kalia Yang, http://www.kaokaliayang.com/ a 28-year-old passion-filled Hmong woman born in one of the post-Vietnam refugee camps in...
Memories from the time of Stalin
I am reading interviews about Soviet repression, which Russia Memorial (with assistance from Orlando Figes) had gathered. Memorial, controversial in Russia, which Vladimir Putin has now suppressed (the documentation is...
Towards the next novel
On reading War and Peace (Tolstoi), On War (Clausewitz) and War (Sun Tsu) March 15, 2011 In writing my next novel "Wounded," I have been thinking how to create the...
This Web Log is about…
The purpose of this web site is to make sense of liars whom I've lived and worked among, against, and for in my life. There are moments when I shake...
