Facebook to the rescue, saving a pup from the war in Afghanistan
It started with a picture of the puppy on Ronny Perryman’s Facebook page and an innocent ‘Like’ of the picture. Perryman, a senior NCO in the US Army’s 24th Infantry Division stationed in Afghanistan, had posted the pup’s picture after his unit had adopted the stray they’d found in a drainage pipe after a firefight. [...]
Changes coming soon
There will be some minor restructuring of The Lunatic Ltd, coming soon. They are not huge but the aim is to tighten my brand and better define who I am as a blogger and what this blog is all about. Been working on it…that’s why I haven’t posted lately…and it’ll be revamped soon so stay [...]
Protected: Expectations of getting busy
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Reading Michel De Montaigne for myself
Today I got a book in the mail. It was one I’d ordered about a week ago…”Michel de Montaigne: The Complete Essays.” It is a tome of over 1,200 pages and is the collected works of the man who coined the term ‘essay.’ For most people, the word ‘essay’ probably brings back horrific memories of [...]
Alaska – toiling for black gold under the midnight sun
There are strange things done in the midnight sun By the men who moil for gold; The Arctic trails have their secret tales That would make your blood run cold; The Northern Lights have seen queer sights, But the queerest they ever did see Was that night on the marge of Lake Lebarge I cremated [...]
Facebook to the rescue, saving a pup from the war in Afghanistan
It started with a picture of the puppy on Ronny Perryman’s Facebook page and an innocent ‘Like’ of the picture. Perryman, a senior NCO in the US Army’s 24th Infantry Division stationed in Afghanistan, had posted the pup’s picture after his unit had adopted the stray they’d found in a drainage pipe after a firefight. [...]
Buying a Brazilian thong in Rio
As a joke, I told her that—if she were nice to me—I would buy her “one of those Brazilian thongs.” It was really just a silly comment at the end of my email as I rushed out the door to meet the driver who was taking me to the airport. A day later, finally in [...]
Plotting a novel
I’ve spent the last several days creating the first round outline of my novel, The City of Black Gold. The process is simple, write out the key plot points and background of the novel in a loose outline form. It’s not the I., II., III. type outline but a rough this-happens-then-this-happens type of outline. My [...]
The City of Black Gold…beginnings
A year ago, I sat in the lobby of a hotel in Cairo and waited for my local contact to show up and take me out for dinner. It had already been a long trip and I was more than a little tired, stressed and overwhelmed. I needed an escape. I didn’t have anything good [...]
Choosing a long-term book project
My main interest in writing is to write books, especially nonfiction books that would fall in the genre of literary journalism or creative nonfiction. Many great works have pr0ceded my efforts in these areas, like The Perfect Storm by Sebastian Junger or any of the great books by Simon Winchester. These are, in fact, what [...]
