Geezers Rock And Don’t Know It

December 19, 2010

I don’t think I’ve mentioned it here before, but I spend my weekend evenings at Central Market (http://www.centralmarket.com) in Fort Worth listening to live music. In the several years I’ve been a regular there, I’ve heard dozens of bands. Many of them are good. Quite a few of them are really bad. The Geezers, however, are in my top two or three. Actually, as the general quality of the bands offered has declined through...
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How I Went to College Too Soon: Definitive Version

December 15, 2010

If people find out that I only went to three years of high school but didn’t drop out, they wonder how it happened. Here’s how it happened. This is the official, final version to which I will refer all future questions. It really is a long story. Here goes: When I was a junior in high school, I found out about a program at the University of North Texas that allowed students with an...
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How I Started Bookselling

December 13, 2010

I feel like I’ve been an Internet bookseller forever, but it really hasn’t been that long at all. I made my first significant bookselling income on Amazon.com in January 2003. I had sold some books on Half.com before that, but if I must choose a date when I really became a bookseller, let’s set it at January 2003.   During the waning days of my full-time writing career, I began to look for ways to...
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My Bio… Or One Version Of It

December 11, 2010

I seem to always be writing a new version of my bio as I apply for different writing situations. For one content creation site, I was asked for a bio. Here’s what I wrote. It isn’t beautiful prose, but it’s accurate.   After an eight year detour through the world of online bookselling, I returned in 2010 to my original career choice: full-time professional freelance writing. I’ve freelanced for more than two decades —...
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Good Movies With Humane Messages

December 9, 2010

Why not spend a couple of hours enjoying a good movie with a positive, animal-friendly message? PETA’s website offered suggestions for animal-friendly, compassionate movies that you might want to watch — or rewatch — in a recent Vegan Grandmother column. “Today’s enlightened parents and grandparents have a plethora of animal- and environment-friendly movies with strong themes of compassion and animal rights,” Michelle Rivera says in her post on PETA Prime. Here’s her list of...
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Amputee Jordan Thomas Provides Direct Help Too

December 6, 2010

One of the first articles posted  was about the Limbs for Life Foundation, an organization I learned about because I like Beatles music. (Read the story here.) I saw an article a couple of weeks ago about another organization, the Jordan Thomas Foundation. It offers similar to help. Thomas was an athletic teen in 2005 when a boat propeller chewed up his legs, but he was back on new feet quickly thanks to good...
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Conspiracy of Good

December 2, 2010

I own the domain name ConspiracyofGood.com because I planned to start a blog highlighting the good things in this world. And since everything is essentially good, that wouldn’t be hard to do. But for a variety of reasons, I decided not to do the project. Here’s the text I wrote for the COG “About This Site” box: Everything you experience today is part of a conspiracy of good. The universe insists on good outcomes....
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