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Dec 28, 2015

On Holiday Travel

About two months ago, my spouse announced she’s going to visit our daughter (George) in Florida for Christmas. She didn’t expect me to want to go because of… well, let’s just say “issues.” Our other daughter, Fred was also going. “Count me in,” I said, without a lot of enthusiasm…

Travel

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Travel

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Dec 17, 2015

The Other Christmas Letter

Our Christmas letter this year was…well, bland due to my wife’s insistence that I not make it more interesting. I offer this to my friends who really understand my penchant for exaggeration and frivolity. Another year has passed for the Redmond Vaughn’s. At least we survived. I would like to…

Christmas Cards

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Christmas Cards

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Dec 6, 2015

Be Not Afraid

It occurs to me, the uproar about Muslims, terrorists and madmen coming to American to end life as we know it, is all about fear. The Daesh (what I prefer to call ISIS or ISIL) wants us to be afraid. The NRA, your local gun store and the arms industry…

Muslim

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Muslim

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Dec 3, 2015

Are Shopping Malls a Thing of the Past?

And then again, a large complex of stores might not make much sense in the future, but in the future… I’m working on The Timkers — Borrowed Time, where the story is set in 2084. The world is a very different place for people as computer “personal assistants” anticipate our…

Tech

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Are Shopping Malls a Thing of the Past?
Are Shopping Malls a Thing of the Past?
Tech

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Dec 2, 2015

The 2015 Annual Shareholders’ Meeting

Since I live within artillery range of Microsoft, I got up at 06:30 to attend the annual shareholders’ meeting. I showed up early and got a cup of tea to chat with other stockholders (many were my age or older). Perhaps I would find a publisher for one of my…

Microsoft

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The 2015 Annual Shareholders’ Meeting
The 2015 Annual Shareholders’ Meeting
Microsoft

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Nov 20, 2015

A Golden Opportunity

Faced with the unintended (but not wholly unforeseeable) side-effects of toppling yet another leader in the Mideast, we Americans have been given a gift — a golden opportunity as it were. …

Thanksgiving

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Thanksgiving

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Oct 24, 2015

2084 — A Glance into the Future

“George Orwell was 100 years off.” Sam Harkins: The Timkers — Déjà Vu. I was six chapters into Borrowed Time, the next book in The Timkers series when it occurred to me that in order to take readers into the future, I would need to fully understand what 2084 would…

Politics

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Politics

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Oct 16, 2015

Evolution of a Cover

For the second time in as many weeks, another author has approached me about the cover for The Timkers —Déjà Vu. They wanted to know how I did it — or did I hire it out. We don’t like it, but books are judged by their covers, so readers not…

Self Publishing

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Evolution of a Cover
Evolution of a Cover
Self Publishing

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Jun 29, 2015

Good Bye

“Okay, by morning,” Ben said, taking the papers and closing the door. His back to the tiny room, his eyes all but overflowing with tears, he gazed down into the empty lot below where a disheveled soul picked through a trash bin, eating something he had found. …

Fiction

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Fiction

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