Archive for my writing
Remembering
Remembering I’ve finished my book, Along the Back Roads of Yesterday. It will be in the hands of the printer by week’s end. Now that it has been put to bed, I am starting another one. This morning I’ve been sitting in front of this monitor listing notes for the new book. I’ve been remembering. [...]
Oris George has a Book?
Guys, even the Coyote brothers are onto this one — slip on over to GET ORIS’s BOOK and, well, GET The BOOK! Some people just ain’t happy until they’ve got a book ready to send out to the masses, can be published and getting it all out there showin’ off what they done did. I’ve [...]
A boy, an’ his mule, an’ a book…
…. The debut of Mr. Oris George’s FIRST PUBLICATION. Well, okay, NOT his very first, but the first time his book has been available and it’s SO newly published that HE doesn’t even know yet (until he gets this email). In fact, it’s so new, that I forgot to tell everyone that this ebook is [...]
Every Morning – the birds sing
Sunlight dimmed by gray clouds rose over the plains of Colorado today. Oris sent me a message suggesting I have a gentle day. And, outside my window a bird chirped out a lonely winter tune. As the webmaster (I think I can still usurp that title on this site) I’ve noticed that Oris lags behind on [...]
Henry & the Bird Apartments
(Oris says) It’s another morning here at the Bird Apartments. If I didn’t know better I would think spring has arrived early. Yesterday Meadow Larks trilled off and on the entire day. Three Magpies spent most of the afternoon inspecting each piece of wood on the top of the wood pile. Black Birds held a meeting on the [...]
Honored Guests – Betty’s Boys
Last night I (Jan Verhoeff) received an email from Oris, telling me that he was going to have some honored guests at his house, and he probably wouldn’t be on the Internet much. So, today, I get an email from Betty, telling me who these boys are. Betty says: Those two boys did not tell [...]
A book project resurrected
I have spent many hours in university libraries researching pages of old Southern newspapers, looking for important issues of the day. Those old pages were full of words and deeds of many seemingly important people who are no longer important. In addition, I have 256 hours of taped interviews with sharecroppers and sons and daughters [...]
