by Jeffrey K. Walker | Aug 1, 2021 | Blog, Posts About My Novels |
I’m taking a couple of weeks vacation and no one can make me feel guilty about it. Well, maybe a little guilty. I was raised and Irish-Catholic, so always have a free-floating background static of guilt. With the uninvited Miss Delta Corona crashing our summer... by Jeffrey K. Walker | Jul 25, 2021 | Blog, Tales of Skeeterville |
Considering the seriousness of many of my posts, I thought this week I’d address something less weighty while sticking to the general theme of Confession Is Good for the Soul. I am a recovering… Catholic altar boy. Catholic Daze of My Youth Being raised in a Catholic... by Jeffrey K. Walker | Jul 18, 2021 | Blog |
My personal history with the Olympics can be summarized as, “Geez, I’m four years older again already?” Yet I adore them, in both Summer and Winter flavors. It’s once again time for my quadrennial startling rediscovery that I know how platform... by Jeffrey K. Walker | Jul 11, 2021 | Blog, Learning from Other Countries |
There’s something happening here. But what it is ain’t exactly clear. The TVs in every bar/restaurant I’ve been in the last month have been showing… soccer. And even worse, European Cup football-soccer. Vince Lombardi is spinning in his New Jersey... by Jeffrey K. Walker | Jul 4, 2021 | Blog |
We did a lot of activities, new and old, during the Pandemic Epoch. But most weren’t play. Even stuff that might look like play wasn’t, being accomplished with the anxious fervor of the homebound and virus-obsessed. It’s time for us to remember how... by Jeffrey K. Walker | Jun 27, 2021 | Blog |
I love rodeo. Really. This might seem strange for a guy who grew up in town and has mostly remained a town rat since heading off to college. How I came to rodeo fandom requires some explanation. Never Could Hold a Job When we settled into the house in Virginia where... by Jeffrey K. Walker | Jun 20, 2021 | Blog |
My New Orleans College applications have become a traumatic right of passage for American kids. My daughter Peanut, a straight-A, very talented, quite zen, non-boy-crazy young lady turned into a blubbering pile of neuroses for the four or five months of college... by Jeffrey K. Walker | Jun 13, 2021 | Blog, Learning from Other Countries |
There’s a lot of talk in Congress about allowing the Post Office to offer basic banking services to help solve the problem of lack of banking access for the poor and the rurally isolated in America. I thought it a good time to repost this blog from two years... by Jeffrey K. Walker | Jun 6, 2021 | Blog, Learning from Other Countries |
In what’s become a series of editorials, the Washington Post again called out the serial broken promises made by America to Afghans who worked for US and NATO forces. This time, WaPo begged the Biden Administration to surge immigration visas for the thousands of... by Jeffrey K. Walker | May 30, 2021 | Blog |
(Having celebrated his 278th birthday last month, Mr. Jefferson remains as perplexing a problem to us as ever. Maybe now all the more so, after a year of BLM protests against persistent racism in America. Thought this a good moment to revisit a blog I wrote three... 
