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in Albany, The United States

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"Scratch a lawyer and you will find a novelist" (and a lawyer who needs a bandage).

I am paraphrasing someone famous. Someone French, I think, though I couldn't find the source just now... Anyway, that's me. A forty-something lawyer who finally got a part-time lawyer gig six years ago and promptly started writing the book I had always felt I would someday write. (Up,Back,and Away). It's a time-travel adventure story about a cosseted 15-year-old boy from suburban Dallas who is sent back in time (on a vintage English three-speed) to 1928 and across the sea to England. There, he is to retrieve a girl with a gift who was born at the wrong time, and to uncover a secret that was not meant to be, ad then return home with them both. The book is a b ...more

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Brenda Blethyn's "Mixed Fancies" - A Review

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If you’re lucky enough to know any nice people over 60 who grew up in large, loving families of limited means, ask them about whether anything dangerous happened to them as kids. Indiana Jones will look like a lightweight by comparison. From my own family, where my father was the eldest of 12, there was the time time my seven-year-old Aunt Judy fell out of th Read more of this blog post »

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Democracy – The God That Failed: The Economics and Politics of Monarchy, Democracy and Natural Order (Perspectives on Democratic Practice)

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Reactionary Liberty: The Libertarian Counter-Revolution

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“A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight.”
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“It seemed after all that one never really missed a thing. To be a human being one had to drink the cup. If one were lucky on one day, or cowardly on another, it was presented on a third occasion.”
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“The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together: our virtues would be proud,if our faults whipped them not; and our crimes would despair, if they were not cherished by our virtues.”
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