James D. Best

My wife and I are about to return to Omaha from San Diego. Darn, where did the time go? I’m going to miss friends and family, surfing...

Winter in Pacific Beach Winter in Nebraska We spend the winters in San Diego. When we called Arizona home, San Diego served as our ...

Yesterday my wife and I left Paris for Omaha. That’s not a sentence most people would enjoy writing, but we’ve been gone a month a...

Pioneer Courage Park, Omaha Nebraska Amy Athey McDonald has published an article in Yale News titled: On gunfights, U.S. colonialism, ...

We're off to San Diego to escape winter in Nebraska. If the body is willing, I also hope to get in a little surfing. Actually, we d...

Oh, give me a home where the buffalo roam, Where the deer and the antelope play; There seldom is heard a discouraging word And the sk...

My wife and I just returned home from  seeing our son’s family  in New York City. He and his wife have three young kids and because they gr...

I self-published The Shopkeeper in 2007. It seems like a lifetime ago, but in indie-publishing terms, it was an eon. I stumbled into i...

Cartoon by Grant Snider As Grant Snider so apply illustrates, a child is likely to fall in love with a single book. At least, in...

Everything is working just fine. The grandkids in New York and Omaha are great, our electronic gizmos have not rebelled against...

I'm staying in San Diego for the winter and have been able to do two of my favorite things: writing and surfing. I’m happy to make ...