About this blog

I'm new to blogging, so, despite the personal description above, I'd like to make some comments about this blog and some lesser comments about the writer.
For a number of years I wrote columns for daily newspapers in different areas of the western United States, and for one three-days-a-week paper for a few years. Mostly the papers were metropolitan dailies of various sizes.
So anyone can assume that I have opinions, sometimes pretty strong opinions. Right now — this instant as I am hammering at my Mac — the opinions are focused on about what everyone else is focused on or should be:
The political races; the war called variously the "War Against Terror" or the "War in Iraq" or maybe just the war; the terror(!) generated by the weather terrorists (if you come back to this you'll probably get several doses of my opinions in that regard); and many other things, some related, some not. Oh, and I forgot (wow, a lie already!), I will probably push my writing a little. As noted above somewhere, I write novels and will no doubt introduced readers to them with the suggestion of course that they purchase and read them.
Some special interests that appear in my novels: Travel in the West, geology and paleoanthropology, history, especially American history, literature in general, maybe even some religious stuff. Other interests, not necessarily appearing in other current writings might include sometimes motion pictures (generally "oldies"), the evil beings that inhabit computers when you are tying to use them, maybe even some humor. Coming from me, who is sometimes regarded (politely) as an "old sober sides," that might be funny indeed.
Some current bugaboos are the climate controversy and of course the election campaigns. Perhaps because I am veteran (no questions, please) the war, which may not address, remains, always, a major concern.