by Jeffrey K. Walker | Aug 9, 2020 | Blog, Coronavirus Journal |
Don’t know if your Nuclear Family Unit—and now Pandemic Bubble Crew—is like mine, but when my wife, Kay-Kay, and I are coming up on an automobile trip, various Piles of Stuff start appearing. On the bathroom vanity, just inside the door to the garage, on the dining... by Jeffrey K. Walker | Aug 2, 2020 | Blog |
Today’s topic is… John Tyler’s House. Or alternatively, memory and history. ‘Cause they’re all kind of jumbled together for me right now. I live in the Commonwealth of Virginia, the Cradle of Presidents, the Old Dominion, Britain’s first colony (if you don’t count... by Jeffrey K. Walker | Jul 26, 2020 | Blog, Coronavirus Journal |
COVID has forced us all to go very virtual. Over the last four months, “virtual” may have overtaken “very” as the most common adjective in the English language. Everything has picked up a Virtual Variation—virtual lectures, virtual happy hours, virtual work meetings,... by Jeffrey K. Walker | Jul 19, 2020 | Blog |
My Big Sister thinks I should be ashamed to admit this, but I love Ernest Hemingway. Sissy reminded me just the other day that Papa H was a “Misogynist Racist Anti-Semite Hyper-Machismo D-bag” (with an actual capital ‘D’). All true, regrettably enough. I... by Jeffrey K. Walker | Jul 12, 2020 | Blog |
Feels a little strange, doesn’t it? Statues coming down all over America. Remember how we cheered when Iraqis pulled down every Saddam? Or a decade earlier how we huzzahed with democratic vindication as Stalin and Brezhnev and Lenin were consigned to the statuary... by Jeffrey K. Walker | Jul 5, 2020 | Blog, Tales of Skeeterville |
It’s hot. And humid. I mean feels-like-walking-through-boiled-molasses hot summer. Not just here in Virginia, according to Weather Underground, but the entirety of the Perspired States of America. It’s just turned July. Yikes. Let us give thanks to all deities and... by Jeffrey K. Walker | Jun 28, 2020 | Blog, Posts About My Novels |
I’ve written three novels all set during a pandemic. Okay, I advertise these books as “First World War and 1920s,” but that includes the time of what is known as the “Spanish flu” pandemic of 1918 to 1920. This particular strain of H1NI avian influenza didn’t... by Jeffrey K. Walker | Jun 21, 2020 | Blog, Your Write Turn |
After a four-month corona-quarantine hiatus, this is the eighth installment in my randomly periodic “Your Write Turn” series of blog posts. I’ve discussed choosing writing as a second career, assessing what personal skills and resources you bring to your writing,... by Jeffrey K. Walker | Jun 14, 2020 | Blog |
The last few weeks have seen a rapidly coalescing consensus that policing in the United States is broken, that it’s persistently biased against black Americans as well as over-militarized and over-lethal to the citizenry meant to be served and protected. Predictable... by Jeffrey K. Walker | Jun 7, 2020 | Blog |
Something remarkable happened this week. In the midst of militarized police and policing military personnel, leadership of the American armed services stepped up to defend the Constitution-—starting with a couple of retired four-star officers, Adm. Mike Mullen and... 
