Back In the Saddle

I apologize to those of you that visited my blog and found it interesting and worth a return trip.

It's been a while since I've put up new material. My excuse, worthless as it is, is that I was a first year teacher in Jacksonville's public schools and it took over my life. There's no way to get through the first year except to grit one's teeth and do it. There is so much to do--every lesson has to be prepared from scratch, which takes 2 - 4 hours each night, after being at school from 9 to 11 hours.

but now I'm a second year teacher, so I return to the blog with renewed enthusiasm.

Who am I? I write and publish novels. Two are in print: Rush Week and Tattered Flags. Rush week is about a college freshman pledging a fraternity. The guys in control of the frat don't want him. My hero is giving every type of discouragement they can think of--along the lines of brutal hazing.

Actually, Rush Week is a disguised account of my efforts to become a United Methodist minister. It was exactly like pledging a fraternity. 'Nough said.

Tattered Flags is about Boy Scouts doing a "good turn" in a Florida forest to clean up pollution. The environmentalists and media mistrust their efforts because they are Scouts and it was the Governor's idea to bring them in.

If you have interest, check out shoppow.com or amazon.com for Rush Week. As I get back to my publishing, I hope to get Tattered Flags in Amazon but it's not there yet. bn.com also has Rush Week.

that gives you some more insight into what I'm about and want to do. I tell stories to address the culture at large, and someday hope to sell enough books to have some influence in shaping America's values for this century.

And now for today's ponderable. It comes from Elizabeth Kostova, who took a fresh look at the Dracula legend in her book, The Historian.

WE have a proverb in Hungarian: "If a thing is impossible, it can be done."

I need to paste that one on my mirror.