Yes, Hemingway is a big deal. If you know nothing about American history, you should know something about Hemingway, especially if you are a writer. I confess to not knowing much about him before I started to write an interview with him, but the more I researched, the more I became engrossed: he grabs you, […]
Mis amigos Escriventores me dieron un reto: hacer una entrevista con Ernest Hemingway para luego publicarla en nuestra página web de Escriventores. Ideábamos tener una sección llamada Mentiras y otras barbaridades. Supuestamente yo, sin duda el más mentiroso, estaba encargado del primer artículo en esta sección. Espero lo disfruten. manuel Entrevistando a Hemingway. Parte primera. […]
Generally speaking, what to some people might look like an insurmountable problem can be nothing but chicken feed to someone else, in other words, easy pickings, especially if the other person is not involved in the so called “problem”. This, I suppose, is the reason we frequently need mediators, or a third party. Sure, some […]
Yes, I was mad. Whether or not I was justified is hard to say. In any case, read on and you be the judge . . . As follows: I met Dale two months after he got out of jail. He had just finished serving seven years on a ten year sentence for murder. Dale […]
We live in a strange time, or perhaps it has always been that way and no matter what decade or century you happen to spend your life in, it was strange, not to mention dangerous. Still, it never ceases to amaze me how much effort people will spend, and money, in order to cause trouble […]
Good fences make good neighbors. The first time I saw my friend Dale, he was going down the middle of a busy street in Valdivia, Chile being followed by a whole mob of kids chanting “el Americano, el Americano.” “Who’s that” I asked the lady next to me. She couldn’t believe I didn’t know. Picture […]
Jim Baird, my good friend and mentor, wrote this and it’s so good I had to include it in my blog. Because of popular demand, I asked him to expand on the subject which he did. I include part 2 (10-27-19) at the end of part 1, and can be thought of as more on […]
In my appraisal, one of the reasons to write is to learn critical thinking. And it’s probably the best way. Nothing lets you see the many holes in your argument as your own words in front of you, plain as day in unadorned black and white. Plus, you have a chance to patch up […]
5-17-19 Amigos. A few weeks ago I had another encounter with a highly illiterate person just fixing to graduate from Guyer High School. At the time, all I could think about was that in front of me was another human amoeba, and one not even Rolando could have loved: one with no supporting brain tissue […]
Nobody can ever say I let my life go by while sitting on my butt. Actually, I’m amazed I’ve managed to live thus far when so many around me didn’t make it. Lucky I guess or blessed. On the other hand, I never went hand gliding over enemy air space or sky diving with a […]