by Jeffrey K. Walker | Jan 12, 2020 | Blog, Posts About My Novels, Your Write Turn |
This is the seventh installment in my periodic “Your Write Turn” series of blog posts. I’ve talked about choosing writing as a second career, assessing what personal skills and resources you bring to your writing, hauling yourself over the hump of self-doubt, writerly...
by Jeffrey K. Walker | Jan 5, 2020 | Blog |
[Happy New Year! Buon capodano! Bonne année! Happy Hogmanay! Gleðilegt nýtt ár! That last one is Icelandic, just because nothing says Happy New Year better than random accent marks!!! I’m on the Left Coast hanging out with my grandkids and generally being Bad...
by Jeffrey K. Walker | Dec 29, 2019 | Blog, Posts About My Novels |
[Since this week happens to include both my ___th birthday and New Years, my wife Kay-Kay has surprised me with three nights at a posh resort in the Blue Ridge. In turn, I’m surprising you with a re-post of one of my favorite and more controversial posts from...
by Jeffrey K. Walker | Dec 22, 2019 | Blog, Flying in the BUFF |
[I’m back in my hometown of Skeeterville for Christmas with my 91-year-old mother this week, so I’m reposting a rant I did back in April ’17 about air travel. Seems seasonally apropos, yes? Sadly, air travel hasn’t improved in the intervening...
by Jeffrey K. Walker | Dec 15, 2019 | Blog |
It’s the Special Relationship, so we’ve been told for many years. It’s some vestigial trans-Atlantic umbilical cord connecting us Yanks with the British. Since Almost Everything Memorable Ever Said In English (Not By Shakespeare) is by default attributed to Winston...
by Jeffrey K. Walker | Dec 8, 2019 | Blog |
A couple of years ago, Kay-Kay and I were out visiting our daughter Peanut and her family—which most importantly included our then two-year-old grandson, Goober. We took the Goob out with us one day to a supermarket with a Truly Impressive Display of fresh-cut flowers...
by Jeffrey K. Walker | Dec 1, 2019 | Blog |
My wife, Kay-Kay, and I have spent a lot of time in foreign countries. We lived together—sometimes married, sometimes not— for four years in two countries. One was Italy, where they do not speak English. The other was Scotland, where they speak something almost akin...
by Jeffrey K. Walker | Nov 24, 2019 | Blog |
I haven’t engaged in a public act of apostasy in at least six or seven days. OK, maybe two or three days. All right, how long since my last tweet? Whatever, I feel like I’m overdo, so here goes. You have permission to eat out this Thanksgiving. Really. Let’s face it,...
by Jeffrey K. Walker | Nov 17, 2019 | Blog |
You see how I hoodwinked you into reading this blog with a pretentiously worded French title? You thought this was going to be some hilarious deep dive into the literature of Marcel Proust, didn’t you? But what it says is “in search of past impeachments.” Well,...
by Jeffrey K. Walker | Nov 10, 2019 | Blog, Posts About My Novels |
[I’m doing a presentation for the Fairfield Library in Richmond this Veterans Day weekend on “The First World War and the Modern Age” as well as introducing and doing Q&A for a special screening of Peter Jackson’s stunning documentary, They...
