Enjoy some of my casual writing here on my blog
Featured Post
Welcome!
Thanks for finding your way to my new website, and a great thanks to Doug Simms for creating it with great care and doing such a beautiful job. Thank you, also, for reading this, my very first blog post ever.
My name for this blog, Blue Ink on Yellow Paper, is meant to be ironic, I suppose. After all, one doesn’t write a blog post by hand with pen and paper…
One Writer’s Desk
As I’ve written before in this blog, I write [...]
Ridin’, Readin’, and “The Ugliest Pilgrim”
I have not heard the squeal of airbrakes through the [...]
A Few Highs and a Low: Ah, the Writing Life
Any writer can tell you rejection stories all the live-long [...]
Behind the Gate with Juvenile Offenders
Next month I'll finish up my twenty-fourth year of teaching [...]
Upon the Occasion of Meeting Mrs. Brown, and Being Quite Shocked
For those of you who might not know her work, [...]
AND THE CROWS TOOK THEIR EYES-Now There’s a Title That’ll Get Your Attention
In my last post, I wrote about my friend Charles [...]
Mark Twain, Elvis Presley, Charles F. Price, and the Nu Wray Inn
And I should add Super Man and Thomas Wolfe to [...]
If You Work in an Outdoor Office, Watch for Falling Snakes
It may be that you already know the joys and [...]
Merv Griffin and a Diminutive Literary Giant
Several years ago now I had the opportunity to deliver [...]
Scenes from an Independent, Bookstore That Is, with a Few Famous Names Thrown In
I'm always glad to sell any one of my books [...]
Appropriate Dress for Visiting Someone Who’s Not Home
I was on my way home to Alabama, traveling from [...]
An Old Kentucky Home That’s Not in Kentucky
I'm not sure how many times I've toured the childhood [...]
Famous Writers Who Aren’t Home
A few years ago, on my way home after giving [...]
