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Hillary Clinton – My Thoughts

Don't panic. Most of my blogs are about other things, but I did offer comments on Trump, and said that a future blog on Clinton would be coming after the DNC convention. Incidentally, those Trump comments generally were well received, even with his supporters, and generated a lot of feedback. I'll try address Hillary Clinton…
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Book Signing at Book People, in Austin, Texas

J.K. (Jim) George will appear at Book People, in downtown Austin, on Tuesday, March 1st, at 7 p.m. Please join him for comments about his newest book, "Contact Sport: A Story of Champions, Airwaves, and a One-Day Race Around the World." George will discuss the "World Championship of Ham Radio," how "Contact Sport" came to…
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You Can Go Home Again

Unlike Thomas Wolfe, the famous North Carolina writer who wrote several American classics dealing with rites of passage, I could, and did, go home again. Of course my wife, Diana, and I have traveled back to Princeton, West Virginia, many, many times over the years. Yet our less-frequent trips are becoming more meaningful as we…
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Big Night at Book People

For an author, one of the signposts along the road to his or her book's growth as more than a private self-actualizing project is the opportunity to discuss it with others, to learn what people think of the work.For me, this initial path began with a wonderful private reception by friends at their home, located…
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