The Legend of the Great Horse

Book II of my fiction trilogy about horses and history is being published soon. So why did I write about horses?
The main reason is they teach us about the world, and they’re lots of fun. Here are some reasons I think horses are an interesting subject:
Horses have always been with us
Since Stone Age [...]

After a long Winter of editing the second book of “The Legend of the Great Horse,” I’m looking forward to getting back to regular posting. (I know I’m jumping the gun by declaring the season over, but others living in the frozen tundra will understand.)
The book’s blog has been reorganized a bit, to focus on [...]

I’ve recently heard about something that has definite appeal to anyone else being swept downstream in the Web 2.0 digital river of blogs, tweets, and other social media technologies.
The word “kaizen” basically means “improvement” in Japanese, but it has come to mean a method of continuous incremental improvements in process or design. Kaizen in [...]

Hi guys! Well I blew right through #2-4 of my 2010 resolutions and #5 is huddled in the corner looking at me with understandable suspicion. And I only made 5.
But my Top Number One Resolution for the New Year was to start up blogging regularly by the 15th of January. And dammit I’m doing it, [...]

It’s a great time to be alive, watching the wheels of history turning and trying to avoid being run over. It feels like that in publishing right now, between the ongoing demise of booksellers and big publishing houses and the oncoming wave of technologies such as Print on Demand (POD), e-book readers , and of [...]

I want to wish everyone great holidays … I’m going to be away from blogging and social media for a while. I’m preparing for a move, never a minor incident in Boston. I’m also gearing up for next year and the release of the second volume of the trilogy, The Golden Spark. “Yikes” is my [...]

If history may be said to be the memory of the human race, it seems subject to many of the same failings of accuracy and interpretation. We see this even in our most recent history: for example a national self-image embraced by some which holds America to be a militaristic warrior-race which “won” WWII, rather [...]

History is an inexact science to be sure, relying at least partially on hearsay and filtered through the political whims of its era. History is also old in the physical sense of the word, an unattractive quality to some.
But the past isn’t dead. As William Faulkner said, “it isn’t even past.”
Yes, the actors are gone, [...]

Okay, my blogging is a mess. There, I said it. And once you slow down it gets hard to go again …
I think I have the problem of Stephen Leacock’s rider who “flung himself from the room, flung himself upon his horse and rode madly off in all directions.” In posting about horses and history, [...]