Crónica de Fray Gaspar de Carvajal Prólogo: Unas palabras sobre la crónica llamada Descubrimiento Del Río le las Amazonas por fray Gaspar de Carvajal (1500-1584). Uno de los supervivientes de la expedición, Carvajal narró los hechos en su obra Relación del nuevo descubrimiento del famoso río Grande que descubrió por muy gran ventura el capitán […]
So many people whining about what others do, or don’t do, drove me to write this piece. As if all the complaining was going to change anything. Once a catholic, always a catholic. Same goes for all the other religions. There are exceptions, of course, but let’s face it, people have their minds made up, […]
Language is how we communicate. In this country, it so happens to be English. So why is it that so few Latinos bother to learn English? I don’t get it. Or maybe I do. If you’re from China or Greece, you have to learn English, at least if you want to live in Denton, after […]
Some people are different, that’s all there is to it. Time, place and circumstances made them that way and I’ve had the fortune to meet some. Antonio, the character is this story is one of them. His name in real life is actually Antonio, same as in the story, and in this excerpt, same as […]
Have you noticed how nobody seems to be responsible anymore? It’s never a person with a name, it’s always They. “They” are the unnamed, unknown strangers that seem to be everywhere, basically run things from the dirty little poorly lit cubbyholes that I imagine they inhabit somewhere, and are hardly ever mentioned. Who closed the […]
A story I submitted to a teacher friend at SMU was actually liked by a lot of the students. They said it was different and fresh, not the same old boy meets girl and they both die before getting married yarn. Here is one of them. I’ll post the other one later. Again, any feedback […]
I know. Lately my articles have been about war and the futility of war. Not all of them are a waste of time, blood, and resources, however, some can actually be justified, same as acting in self-defense. WW2 is a good example. In the face of a strongly fortified and well-armed Germany who wanted to […]
Afghanistan seems to be in the news again and lives are still being lost . . . and for what? Nothing as in zero, has been achieved over the last twenty years at the cost of a king’s ransom, other than creating some dedicated enemies. And I don’t blame the Afghans for hating us: I […]
Sometimes I read something that is so bad it makes me cringe. I don’t normally cringe, it’s not my style, but occasionally it happens and I have to say something or pop. Here is a letter to the editor of the DRC with my thoughts on an essay written by Ramiro Valdez regarding immigration. Not […]
For those of you who like to write, here is a contribution from my friend Jim Baird that is both fun to read and a good example of how to write a story. Notice how it starts out nice and easy and continues to flow like smooth water on good bourbon all the way to […]