Book Review: A Small Back Yard In Tidewater Virginia
Like Robertson, I, too, have spent most of my life with animals, mine falling within an ‘F’ category – fins, feathers, or furry. Though this isn’t a children’s book in the formal publishing sense, it is a story for children. As adults, we tend to be a bit annoyed with the neighborhood strays, but children […]
Fifth Installment of A Knock on the Door by Dean Robertson
PART FIVE: STORIES Chapters 22-24 Chapter Twenty-Two Mrs. Randolph “I came to feel almost as if that wonderful new building was haunted by all the children.” Mil objected strongly when Dora took her by the arm and headed back to the parlor, leaving Abby with a table full of dishes to clear and […]
Fourth Installment of A Knock on the Door by Dean Robertson
PART FOUR, HOME: A NEW SCHOOL AND OLD FRIENDS Chapters 18-21 Chapter Eighteen Bill and Martin and the Ford “That Ford automobile has changed the lives of a lot of people in this family.” “Ma, are you telling me that you have an automobile? That this Ford sittin’ right here in the road belongs to […]
Third Installment of A Knock on the Door by Dean Robertson
PART THREE: A HUSBAND AND A SON Chapters 16-17 Chapter Sixteen A Motherless Child “I wish I could have given him more.” Years go by and things change fast, like the lightning in summer storms, and in the spring of the year that Bill turned ten, Martin was thirty-nine, I had celebrated my twenty-sixth […]
Second Installment of A Knock on the Door by Dean Robertson
Chapter Three Camilla “I hope your day was worthwhile.” Camilla felt immediately that it was a peculiar word to have used, and a strange question to ask. There was no doubt that Martin’s asking it at all was a direct reference to the time they were together in the kitchen and, even more specifically, to […]
First Installment of A Knock on the Door by Dean Robertson
Author’s Note For a while now, I have struggled with the subtitle of A Knock on the Door. It is, as the final decision suggests, the story of a marriage, and I intend the juxtaposed photographs on the cover to suggest the changes that might happen between a husband and wife. One is a […]
Dean Speaks Out Updates
My friend Dean Robertson has been busy these past weeks, and I wanted to provide the links to her recent writing. Isolation and Depression: Covid-19 or Anytime – WELCOME TO DEAN SPEAKS OUT, 2020: Isolation and Depression: Covid-19 or Anytime No Writing Prompt Too Silly – No Writing Prompt Too Silly Dinner Out–That Forgotten Pleasure […]
Searching for Patriots Project
Questions & Answers How will this anthology be published? Publication will be done either through a traditional publishing house or independently. Any books resulting from this project will be released for sale in paperback and eBook formats. How did you get my contact information? Initial contact information was acquired by researching publicly available […]
CARES Act 2020
Many folks will not read the actual bill or supplemental document, so I thought it would be useful to prepare a list of identified expenses. Maybe this will shed some light on the many false claims being pushed through social media. CARES Act Funding pdf
Politics: The 101- An Excerpt.
“The past is prologue.” William Shakespeare “What ruined my country, and drove me from my home, was the introduction—into the Army, of all places—of your theory of Political Dichotomy! “Shall I trouble you too much,” I said, “if I ask you to explain what you mean by the ‘Theory of Political Dichotomy’?” “No trouble […]
Book Review #21: The Year of Needy Girls
The Year of Needy Girls by Patricia Smith was released in 2017 by Akashic Books. The concept is good, a lesbian couple living a small New England town where a horrific murder of a young boy occurs. There are so many ways to build a story around this. Though I was ultimately disappointed, this is […]
Book Review #20: Ministry of Peculiar Occurrences: The Janus Affair
The Janus Affair is the second installment of the six-part The Ministry of Peculiar Occurrences series of Steampunk Fiction by Pip Ballantine and Tee Morris. In this book, agents Books & Braun have to determine why and who is kidnapped suffragists via a steampunk transporting device. Sophia Del Morte and the Ministry Seven are back […]