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John Kerry soldiers on
The first time I wrote a story about John Kerry, in 1986, he got very angry. So did his press person. It was, to paraphrase Richard Blaine, the start of a beautiful professional friendship. It has now been almost three decades since that story and the professional relationship took off, grew strong and beneficial toRead moreThere’s trouble in River City, and it’s spelled D-A-M
There is a village in Afghanistan by the name of Kobakai, a few winding hours from Kabul, where the lives of the residents changed because of one thing: water. With help from outside groups such as CARE, one morning the residents of Kobakai (ko-BAH-ki) woke to find that beginning that day they would not haveRead moreHow many times can the game change?
In January 1864, some strangely dressed men with odd accents arrived in the camp of Confederate general Robert E. Lee, whose troops had been reeling from shortages of arms and supplies. They demonstrate a new weapon – an amazingly high powered accurate “repeater” rifle – and offer it to Lee. He accepts. And the armingRead moreTags: Assad, atomic bomb, game changer, Guns of the South, HArry Turtledove, Hasan Nasrallah, Hezbollah, John Kerry, NATO, No fly zone, Russia, Sergei Lavrov, stingers, Syria, the AK-47., the bayonet, the flintlock, the Gatling gun, the Hoplon shield, the longbow, the M-1 Garand rifle, the Maxim gun, the Roman Gladius sword, Tom SquitieriA Fat Wallet — Chapter One
It is over the hill where he had to go. Samuel Burroughs squinted hard at the horizon and his eyes thought he saw wisps of smoke rising. His heart told him it was smoke, maybe his silent, incorrect wish. His head said they were merely dirty clouds.Read moreSituational Awarness
Chapter Four — “That’s Righteous, Brother” Six word stories: Hemingway did it, so can you. What will your obit say? The basic interview methods. Then how to build on them. Writing in one’s own voice. Why the rules matter – and why they don’t. Checkpoint K-Y: The ValueRead more