Archive for September, 2006

How this journalist missed a liberal education

Thursday, September 28th, 2006

By BILL DUNCAN The View From Here

I must have attended college sixty years too soon. I missed a liberal education, even though I majored in journalism and everyone knows that falls under a liberal education.

I was stuck with dry courses pertaining to my career. It was a no nonsense education track [...]

No left turns in life

Monday, September 18th, 2006

By BILL DUNCAN The View From Here

I learned to drive a car on the old airport road in Panama City, Fla. It was a hardpacked dirt road and it was rare for a driver to meet another car coming or going. I never bothered with such things as getting a driver’s license.
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The deeds of Wanda McLean alive in youth

Monday, September 18th, 2006

By BILL DUNCAN The View From Here

On our life’s journey we meet thousands of people, some just in passing, but others come into our lives to leave a permanent mark.

So it was with Wanda McLean, a woman I met under unusual circumstances.

I was chapter manager of the American [...]

No day off for a freelance writer

Wednesday, September 13th, 2006

By BILL DUNCAN The View From Here

I am what is commonly known in literary circles as a freelance writer. In other words I write for many publications but get none of the perks of a full-time employee — i.e. it’s Labor Day and I am laboring over this column because it is not [...]

The Western novel is still very much alive

Wednesday, September 13th, 2006

 

Mineral Spirits
By Heather Sharfeddin
Bridge Works Publishing
Hardbound $21.95 

By BILL DUNCAN

Heather Sharfeddin’s second mystery novel, "Mineral Spirits," again captures the contemporary Western genre of her first work when her protagonist, a modern day Western sheriff in a small rural county in Montana finds the skeletal [...]

The nine lives of Wazoo the cat

Tuesday, September 5th, 2006

 
Book Review We Are The Cat: Life Through the Eyes of the Royal Feline By Terry Bain Harmony Books Crown Publishers Hardbound $16
By Bill Duncan
Page Turners/Currents Magazine August 31, 2006
If Terry Bain, the author of the best selling humor book "You Are A Dog," thought he could equally [...]

Taking up the fight against obsolescence

Tuesday, September 5th, 2006

By Bill Duncan
The trouble with modern technology is that whatever you buy is obsolete before you can take it out of the box and decide which language of the instructions will be less confusing.
My experience is that the easy instructions are not written in English. As a writer, I feel much more comfortable with [...]