Look, it’s pretty simple.
It is certainly not Congress that keeps this nation together and rolling… no, not the President. No figureheads or leaders can make the machine run – that is the responsibility of every person. There are some who believe that this nation is held together by the police, but there are simply not enough of them [...]
The Book of a Google Faces
It’s been a long stretch of Truckin’ with Ron posts, so I thought I’d ramble a bit on the uses and abuses of ye olde Facebook. Recently, a friend of mine (who is an excellent blogger) “quit” Facebook. I say “quit” because, as she pointed out, Facebook saves ALL of your information (contact and “about me”, pictures, [...]
Truckin’ with Ron: Hot Pants
My good friend Matthew Ticciati wrote me a theme song! So I upped the pro-status of intro/outro… I’m having a lot of fun with these videos, and people seem to like them, so stay tuned for more!
Truckin’ with Ron: Things on My Mind…
This week I try to get deep. You don’t know me! Intro music by The Speeding Trees. www.thespeedingtrees.com
The Space Between
I haven’t been given to much blogging lately, as a symptom of a greater ill-at-ease that has infected my life. As an example, use my previous sentence in the context of “my purpose in blogging.” – Is this blog/webpage a venue to showcase my writing ability, as a medium to pull potential readers into buying [...]
Truckin’ with Ron: Three in One
Put together three incomplete Truckin’s to get one big one. Enjoy! Intro music by The Speeding Trees.
Truckin’ with Ron: Barns, Headlights, Boredom
Intro music by The Speeding Trees: http://www.thespeedingtrees.com/
No More Frontiers, No More Discovery
I’ve been researching the history of my hometown and county: Fairfield, Iowa in Jefferson County. I know it’s a myth, the idea of pioneers and settlers “discovering” the land, when people have been living here since 10,000 BCE. And, of course, what happened to the Native Americans was freaking tragic. But the settlers themselves didn’t really think about [...]
The Death of Growing Freedom
Well, it looks like my old blog “Growing Freedom” is dead. Apparently upgrading to the latest version of WordPress without backing things up is a bad idea. By all accounts my content is gone, even if whatever “Internal Server Error” sorts itself out. I suppose I should be upset – I put a good chunk [...]
Fiction as Real as My Breath.
I’ve been writing so much serious non-fiction I’ve forgotten how to write fun, lighthearted fiction. Or non-fiction, I guess. I don’t really have any stories to tell. Some people, I’ve seen them, they have stories. Characters, plots, rich new worlds of imagination…. I don’t. My aborted novel is testimony to that – it’s awful not [...]
