by Jeffrey K. Walker | Jan 26, 2020 | Blog |
As if we need any more proof that Americans walk around in constant search of reasons to show themselves aggrieved on any form of social media. All those “scare quotes” and ANGRY SHOUT CAPITALS and strings of undecipherable face emojis — 🤢😪😖😬😳😡😵🥴😤🥵😈👹💩💀. Most...
by Jeffrey K. Walker | Jan 19, 2020 | Blog |
Exactly 100 years ago this last Friday, America’s Greatest Social Engineering Experiment Ever went into effect. I’m not talking about Social Security or Medicare or slicing the bread before putting it in the bag. I’m talking about Prohibition. Let’s start with the...
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,...
