Hard to believe that twelve years have gone by since that horrific day in New York when the towers went down and over three thousand people were killed. Twelve years. I wouldn't be surprised if every U.S. citizen doesn't have some sort of connection with one or more of the victims. One of my students, Amy King, and her husband were flight attendants for United that awful day. I remember her as a beautiful, joyful girl/woman. How senseless were the deaths of her and her husband and the thousands of others. Why can't the peoples of the world stop killing each other? Not wealth, power, or religious beliefs should be motives for such acts. Maybe one day we'll see the end of it.
I've always collected errors in diction, things people mis-hear, like "windshield factor" and "the next store neighbors." Years ago, one of my students wrote an essay in which she described the world as being harsh and cruel, "a doggy-dog world." I've since come to think she may have been more astute and accurate than those who describe it in the usual way. My Stories - Mobridge Memories -
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Most of what I've written has been published as e-books and is available at Amazon. Match Play is a golf/suspense novel. Dust of Autumn is a bloody one set in upstate New York. Prairie View is set in South Dakota, with a final scene atop Rattlesnake Butte. Life in the Arbor is a children's book about Rollie Rabbit and his friends (on about a fourth grade level). The Black Widow involves an elaborate extortion scheme. Happy Valley is set in a retirement community. Doggy-Dog World is my memoir. And ES3 is a description of my method for examining English sentence structure.
In case anyone is interested in any of my past posts, an archive list can be found at the bottom of this page. I'd appreciate any feedback you may have by sending me an e-mail note--jertrav33@aol.com. Thanks for your interest.
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