by Clifford James | Nov 6, 2023
I was going to college in Connecticut and stopped at my brother’s in Otsego NY, near Oneonta, on the way home for Thanksgiving. We went hunting and he shot a buck. We contacted my father who knew a butcher closer to my hometown, about 150 miles away. My brother...
by Clifford James | Nov 5, 2023
“Sometimes the road less traveled is less traveled for a reason” (Jerry Seinfeld). I was visiting my brother in Pennsylvania a couple of years ago, relying heavily on my GPS to guide me around. From his house, I started out on a trip to my hometown in western New York...
by Clifford James | Nov 4, 2023
“A blank piece of paper is God’s way of telling us how hard it is to be God” (Sydney Sheldon). Oh where to begin? Fortunately, God let us figure out how to go from a blank piece of paper to a blank screen. I’ve spent hours in front of my blank...
by Clifford James | Nov 3, 2023
“Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen” (John Steinbeck). I agree that yes, my ideas are like rabbits. First I have a couple and then they multiply. But it doesn’t stop at a dozen....
by Clifford James | Nov 2, 2023
“I can shake off everything as I write; my sorrows disappear, my courage is reborn” (Anne Frank).When I write, I escape. I imagine that was how Anne Frank managed to survive as long as she did as she lived in imminent fear of discovery by the Nazis....
by Clifford James | Nov 1, 2023
I Need More Time. “If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn’t brood. I’d type a little faster” (Isaac Asimov). What would you do if you only had six minutes to live? I thought about it a minute. (That only leaves 5). I...
