PORT TOWN SIGNING

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July 29, 2015

We finished writing Port Town on Halloween of last year, but there is a huge difference between completing a manuscript and holding the finished product in your hand. The editing and design folks at the Port of Long Beach did an incredible job of putting together the commemorative copy of the book with leatherette cover and copper-gilded pages. We spent a recent afternoon signing the books for special presentations. The book – Port Town, How the People of Long Beach Built, Defended, and Profited from Their Harbor – is available in both printed soft-cover on Amazon.com for $10.70 and in digital format for $1.99. It is free for download on iTunes. A limited number of the commemorative copies will be available for sale at the Long Beach Historic Society in August.

News

October 8, 2020

Hooked on Crime

Even by Texas standards, Jay J. Armes is a colorful and flamboyant character. The private investigator has a long career of taking on tough cases, bending the rules, and getting results. Read More HERE

Shoshin on Experts

The Japanese Zen term shoshin refers to a paradox: the more you know about a subject, the more likely you are to close your mind to further learning – especially from people who challenge your beliefs. As Zen monk Shunryu Suzuki puts it: “In the beginner’s mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert’s there are few.” Read More HERE

Viral Neo-Feudalism

Joel Kotkin of Chapman University warns that the Corona virus is accelerating an already underway trend to a new feudal society with an ever-shrinking middle class. In the neo-Feudal world the middle class loses its primacy as small businesses fail and even affluent families face the prospect of joining the ranks of ever-expanding class of property-less serfs. Read More HERE

May 28, 2020

Peter the Dog

This is a tale from Down Under about a loyal dog named Peter, who died, was buried, then dug up, skinned, stuffed, and used as evidence to convict his master of murder. The master was convicted in 1953, and died in 1987, but his dog lives on – sort of – as an exhibit in Queensland Police Museum Read More HERE

The War on Bats

Bats are getting a bad rap nowadays from humans, who are more than anxious to exterminate them at every opportunity. But some scientists say, we should learn their secrets about how they live with viruses that kill other species. Read More HERE

Cancer Sniffing Dogs

We can’t pass up an opportunity to point out how cool dogs are and how they are now being used to help doctors sniff out ovarian cancer in its early stages. This video explains how doctors are using computers to figure out how dogs do it with their noses. See Video HERE

April 2, 2020

Hoping For Better Tomorrow

Pal and Blogsteress Robin Coyle makes some optimistic predictions about how the current Corona virus lock-down may change us for the better. I’m an old grump and a little more cynical than Mrs. Coyle, but I think she is right about some things and I hope she is about others. Read More HERE.

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