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Friday, March 31, 2017

Returning to the Heartland

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Winter in Pacific Beach Winter in Nebraska We spend the winters in San Diego. When we called Arizona home, San Diego served as our ...
Sunday, February 26, 2017

WSJ Editorializes on Hollywood Malaise

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Rod Pennington writes that "Sunday's Oscars ceremony takes place during one of the gloomiest times for the film industry in rec...
Tuesday, February 7, 2017

Crossing the Animas back from Editor

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A few days ago, my editor sent me the edited version of Crossing the Animas and related files. I'm anxious to reviewed her revis...
Monday, January 9, 2017

Happy New Year!

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The first eight days of 2017 have already slipped away. I've been distracted by family and fun. It seems the only way to slow down ti...
Thursday, December 1, 2016

Fruit cakes and novels

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I subscribe to the Nelson DeMille newsletter. He's been one of my favorite authors since I read Cathedral nearly three decades a...
Monday, October 31, 2016

House of Corn, Stone Presidents, and a Sioux Triumph

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Mitchell Corn Palace We recently moved from Arizona to Omaha and are still getting to know the neighborhood. Friends—and sometime relat...
Monday, October 3, 2016

Trey Parker and Matt Stone of South Park Talk About Storytelling

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NYU teaches a class in storytelling the Tisch School of the Arts. On the first day of class, Professor Liotti invited Trey Parker and Matt S...
Monday, September 26, 2016

The Magnificent Seven—Hollywood Finally Gets It Almost Right

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Hollywood doesn’t like Westerns. They keep trying to make them into something else. If a traditional Western is a success, like Unfo...