This year marks the 30th anniversary of Banned Books Week, a celebration of our “Right to Read.” Supported by many national organizations, it calls attention to attempts to “protect” us from reading materials that some people find offensive. Jean M. Auel’s “Earth’s Children” series is an example of the kind of books that are challenged […]
Reading to Write
My Path to Becoming an Author
Category: Conversations
I am afraid my regular blogging efforts are going to be sparse this month. I am engaged in Camp NaNoWriMo for August. Adding that to my routine obligations is pushing other things off the grid. I rearranged my editorial calendar to, supposedly, allow for it. It just seems my “live” calendar keeps expanding into the […]
Waaay back in 2004, I “retired” from Home Depot to go back to school. I had an Associates degree in computers, (mostly programming) that I had used for most every thing except what I expected when I was working on it. That degree, however, was prehistoric as far as technology is concerned. There wasn’t even […]