Tag: Pennsylvania
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Available Now in Paperback & Kindle – The Logic of a Gen X Appalachian Boy: A Childhood Memoir
Before technology swept away society’s 19th century ways, a blonde-haired, tongue-tied Appalachian boy tries to make sense of a hard-to-explain world. The mysteries of girls. The trials of school. The safety of family. The confusion of church. The cold facts of death. These are the memories of a boy navigating his way through his first…
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Excerpt: Chapter 1 of THE LOGIC of a GEN X APPALACHIAN BOY
My childhood memoir will be releasing on July 6 in paperback and on Kindle ebook. This is a simple collection of stories from my childhood. They are deeply nostalgic, humorous, emotional, and personal. I’m pleased to share the very short introductory first chapter with you today. The ebook can be pre-ordered at the link below.…
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Re-release: BEAUTY RISING
My first novel, published at the tale-end of 2012, has a new polish, a new cover, and a new price for the new year. I’m very pleased to announce a re-released edition of this story which is near and dear to me. The re-edits make the story flow in a more natural way, which will,…
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A Boy from Pennsylvania Weighs In
Pennsylvania did it. It ruthlessly defied the odds and pushed Donald Trump into the White House. Everyone is still in shock. Both Republicans and Democrats. Something was afoot, and everyone (or nearly everyone) missed it. I grew up in Butler County, western Pennsylvania, just north of Pittsburgh. It has a series of small towns, rolling…
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Beautiful Views from Back Home in Pennsylvania
I’ve shared many posts about the beautiful island of Penang where I currently live. And many have been announcing its accolades over the past few years because of its cultural heritage and terrific food. Well, now I stumbled across a BBC article about an often overlooked million acres of outdoor ideal-ness called the Allegheny forest…
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Propaganda Borders: N. Korea & S. Korea vs. Ohio & Pennsylvania
Along the 38th parallel on the Korean Peninsula is a well fortified DMZ, which separates the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea with the Republic of South Korean. Since the cease fire in 1954, the two brotherly states have been starring down the barrels of each other’s weapons, watching and waiting for the slightest flinch of…
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Hamas, PA could be next pawns in Saudi-Iranian proxy war. Those Pennsylvanians!
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2015/04/15/hamas-pa-could-be-next-pawns-in-saudi-iranian-proxy-war/ It seems that the Ayatollah of Iran and the King of Saudi Arabia has chosen an obscure town in Western Pennsylvania as the site of a proxy war between the two regimes. Hamas, PA – south of Tidioutte on the banks of the Allegheny River, might seem like an unlikely location for the two…