So there’s a meme going around (as memes will do), poking fun at Mitt Romney’s new campaign button. It apparently reads “Believe in America” on its face, and has “MADE IN CHINA” stamped into the back. I have no idea whether this is true. So many scurrilous things are mumbled about national candidates these days. … [more]
Off to college
3-August-2012 by 4 Comments
Look at the stars Look how they shine for you And everything you do Yeah they were all yellow… –Coldplay, Yellow So that’s it, then. All those years, you knew it was coming but you never quite thought it was here; never quite imagined that you’d really be packing the last boxes, doing that final … [more]
Old Enough, To No Better (posted from Iron Horse Garage)
21-July-2012 by 10 Comments
Chantilly lace and a pretty face And a pony tail hanging down That wiggle in the walk and giggle in the talk Makes the world go round —Chantilly Lace, The Big Bopper There are certain things that give women to understand that we — that is, male humans — don’t ever really grow up. Never … [more]
Crisis Mode
20-July-2012 by 9 Comments
The Most Interesting Man In The World is just a sadbelly beer pusher with nothing interesting to say about motorcycles, but the most interesting woman I’ve ever known once said of midlife crises, “Have them early and often.” It’s fair to say that she had no idea what she was signing up for. She probably … [more]
What is this worth to you?
19-June-2012 by Leave a Comment
Happy Juneteenth, the celebration of my country finding its soul at great cost. The Civil War cost us more lives than any conflict before WWII — and was perhaps the most worthwhile expenditure of American lives and treasure since the Revolutionary War. It was that rarest of things: a war actually fought to ensure the … [more]
Five annos on
9-June-2012 by 1 Comment
June 2012 The past few years have treated me luxuriously. I have a partner with a smile so shiny, she lights up every room she enters. I get to write things and post them around, and call it my profession (I profess that this is what I do; is that close?). Daughtergirl is rump-kicking her … [more]
Prequel, the First
6-June-2012 by 6 Comments
In 2011, my publisher Litsam, Inc. released Nothing In Reserve, a group of stories surrounding my deployment to Iraq in 2004-’05. The following events and observations preceded the span covered by that book; some by a lot, some by less. These are some of the triggers that launched my personal bullet, one which will seem … [more]
Reminders from an Irish Rose
5-June-2012 by Leave a Comment
I appreciate graceful language where I find it, but for a people wielding history’s most acquisitive linguistic hegemony, we’ve hidden it well. English suffers from its economic superiority. Victors are precise, even eloquent in the description of conquests past, but the beautiful human anguish dries up and falls away from a people too well-heeled, too … [more]
"Jack Lewis takes the overall literary crown with his new book...there’s a lot more to Lewis’s work than what it feels like to ride motorcycles.” — Ultimate Motorcycling
"Insightful and from the heart ... a driven and much recommended look into the mind and conflict of the next generation of war veterans. " — Midwest Book Review (Reviewer's Choice)