The Sweetheart
“The summer of 1942 was the happiest, most carefree of my life,” Sally wrote fifty years later about Longview on the Columbia River in...
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D. W. Wilma
Aug 22, 20202 min read
Uncle Pat
A friend of mine mentioned that her uncle was killed during the Second World War. She never met him and knew little of his life. He was...
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D. W. Wilma
May 31, 20204 min read
Bob Snyder
Bob Snyder was my best friend in high school. We met as members of the McClellan Cadet Squadron, Civil Air Patrol in Sacramento. We both...
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D. W. Wilma
Apr 29, 20202 min read
The Chapman Incident
Grey Gold is set against the backdrop of Civil War San Francisco and an attempt by Confederate agents to steal California gold. Every...
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D. W. Wilma
Apr 3, 20201 min read
Taste of Freedom
This is the third in the series featuring my fictionalized character Phyllis Wallace Lewis. Phyllis was a real person held as a slave by...
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D. W. Wilma
Feb 13, 20201 min read
Trace of Hope
This is the next release in the adventures of Phyllis, the woman freed from slavery in Down the River, a real person. The chronology of...
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D. W. Wilma
Dec 22, 20192 min read
Serendipity
The origin of this book came in the early 1990s in my family history research. I stumbled across a query in an old journal mentioning my...
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May 2, 20191 min read
The End of the Story
I love historical research and crafting up a story set in another time. I add the forces of the time, the character’s needs and wants,...
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Aug 16, 20172 min read
The Lost Cause
The tragedy in Charlottesville and ensuing cacophony has inspired me to offer my perspective of the history involved. The monuments in...
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May 13, 20173 min read
A Measure of Success
The email was a surprise and then it wasn’t. The man was in my scout troop in San Francisco thirty years ago and as a teen was not the...
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Nov 5, 20161 min read
Online discourse
I am being charitable in the term discourse. Recently I added a comment to a Youtube file, the audio of fire department radio...
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Oct 10, 20161 min read
Complete Sentences
In the cacophony that is the presidential campaign I have not seen any discussion how candidate Trump seems unable to formulate complete...
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Aug 17, 20166 min read
Bigfoot200
Bigfoot 200 is an endurance run from south of Mount St. Helens to Randle, Washington. It is put on by a company that stages one smaller...
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Apr 2, 20161 min read
My First Podcast
I was honored to be interviewed on the Writers Groupie podcast. I moved my desk around so that my bookcase was in the background and I...
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Feb 1, 20162 min read
The American Revolution
We recently observed the 150th anniversary of the 13th Amendment, the ban on slavery. Slavery—involuntary servitude, bonded servitude,...
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Dec 30, 20152 min read
Accountability
The continuing and tragedy of questionable police shootings has generated much noise and consumed many hours of cable TV news bandwidth....
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Dec 8, 20151 min read
DOJ to investigate Chicago PD
This has to go with, “I’m shocked, shocked to find there’s gambling going on in here.” The Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division has...
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Jul 15, 20151 min read
Monuments
The aftermath of the tragedy in Charleston has triggered a lively and not always civil discussion on the action in South Carolina to...
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Jul 1, 20151 min read
True Detective
This HBO series started last year starring Woody Harrelson and Matthew McConnaughey as a couple of detectives in bayou country...
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Jun 15, 20153 min read
Police Killings…
…or media-speak, “officer-involved shootings.” But these don’t include choking, taser, or blunt force trauma deaths. In any event, deaths...
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