by Jeffrey K. Walker | Apr 5, 2020 | Blog |
[It’s bad and getting worse, we all know that now. News out of New Orleans this week that Ellis Marsalis, Jr., the piano player, teacher, and patriarch of an amazing family of jazz musicians that includes sons Wynton and Branford, was taken by COVID-19. I can’t...
by Jeffrey K. Walker | Mar 29, 2020 | Blog |
[Looks like I’m the Harbinger of Coronavirus—three cities I once lived in or near are having their turns in the crosshairs of COVID-19: Chicago, on the outskirts of whose Greater Metro Area I was born and raised; New Orleans, where I spent my undergrad years and did a...
by Jeffrey K. Walker | Mar 22, 2020 | Your Write Turn |
[I just read the Sunday Washington Post and was stunned by the horrible coronavirus news from northern Italy—where Kay-Kay and I lived for three years with our kids back in the ’90s. It’s heartbreaking. As I write this, we in America don’t know how things are going to...
by Jeffrey K. Walker | Mar 15, 2020 | Blog, Coronavirus Journal |
[I was planning to do a post for St Patrick’s Day, but the leprechauns got preempted by a more insidious little green creature, the coronavirus. I’m assuming they’re green–and why not? Consider this week’s post my Covid-19 Public Service...
by Jeffrey K. Walker | Mar 8, 2020 | Blog |
[Kay-Kay and I spent the last week in Corornafornia… errr, Northern California… with Goober and Goldie (my grandkids) and Their Staff (my daughter Peanut and her husband JD). As a result, my literary endeavors have been limited to reading aloud Every...
by Jeffrey K. Walker | Mar 1, 2020 | Blog, Two Stiffs Writing HistFic |
As is regularly the case in our household, Kay-Kay is much better than I am at remembering names. She’s also much better at remembering birthdays, my having completely forgotten hers at least once in our 37 years of utter matrimonial bliss. Well, maybe minus that one...
by Jeffrey K. Walker | Feb 23, 2020 | Blog |
Because the world needs Another Movie Remake, Hollywood continuing to be bereft of Very Many New Ideas, The Call of the Wild (2020 version) opened in theaters everywhere a couple of days ago. This is the fifth time the beloved 1903 Jack London book has been reduced to...
by Jeffrey K. Walker | Feb 16, 2020 | Blog |
I get it. Everyone seems to assume I’m a conservative. I’m like a cookie-cutter shape from the conservative demographic. Aging Boomer? Check. White Guy? Check. Born and raised in small-town Midwest? Check. Old Air Force officer? Big check. Here’s the thing. I’ve voted...
by Jeffrey K. Walker | Feb 9, 2020 | Blog, Tales of Skeeterville |
[I have a zillion balls in the air this week, so I’m reposting an old blog. WIth the media in overdrive the last few weeks, what with the Impeachment Trial and the Iowa Caucuses, I thought it a good time to remember how important the realest of Real...
by Jeffrey K. Walker | Feb 2, 2020 | Blog |
The Second World War is definitely America’s Favorite War. Although somewhat delayed in our entry—we had to be poked in the eye with a very sharp stick by the Japanese—we were all in and went big. The First World War? Not so much. We were VERY late to that fight....
