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In 1843 -London England, Christmas was a holiday barely celebrated. It all changed when a “down and out”, young writer by the name of John Huffam, after three failed books, found himself on the verge of bankruptcy. Desperate and riddled […]
A special moment in the writing of The Red Truck of Christmas
The Red truck of Christmas: Creating a Legend
As you may or may not know I usually don’t put religious or political content on my Blog, but some years ago I ran across a billboard promotion in Knoxville TN and I thought they were a lot of fun […]
The male nurse mentioned that the most beautiful sunrises could be seen from my room at HCA Centennial Heart Center. You would think someone granted a new lease on life, would notice, but I hadn’t until he mentioned it. And […]
Walton and Allan were young movie makers. In fact both thought of making movies almost as soon as they began to walk. So by the time they hit their twenties, after years of playing with their parent’s movie cameras, they […]
“Bond…James Bond.” Who could ever forget that three word introduction? Since 1952 people have been fascinated by the most popular MI-6 agent known as “James Bond”. Since then there have been many actors who played the international super-spy, but none […]
Perhaps one of the greatest mysteries, as well as the greatest disasters to ever take place on Illinois waterways; even today, the sinking of the riverboat Columbia continues to haunt the pages of American history. Now over a hundred […]
Circa 1953, a farmer found a sink hole on his property. Thinking one of his goats had fallen in and not realizing that the hole was actually the mouth of a cave; he had two two friends lower him down […]
For a long time society at large has looked at the levels of education as a measurement of intelligence and only recently have we began to realize that for the most part it is largely a myth. First it is […]