Personal Notes
I was gone for a couple weeks and nothing unexpected really happened. A debt deal was made, whereby we are told we’re going to “cut” the Federal budget by spending, say, 6% more over the next decade than the previously assumed 7% or 8%. Well, at least there were no tax increases (for now). Central…
I’m finally sorting through the piles of papers and magazines with stories about which I’d intended to post. Put together, the stack would be fully two feet high, and the dates on some of the papers provide evidence of something that surprised me, although of course I knew it to be the case on some…
Old history in a new format: I’m happy to announce that my historical book Burgundians in the Mist is now available in a variety of e-book formats–including Kindle, Epub (supports Nook, Sony, etc.) and even PDF–for only $2.99! The neat thing about the Kindle version is that the footnotes are hypertext, so you can select…
As mentioned previously, I’ve had a book in the works. Not political; history (and ancient at that!). It’s now out. Buy a copy today! Thanks!
In the first half of the 2000’s I attended Providence College and earned an M.A. in History from that fine institution. Finally, after a few years, I’ve decided to formalize a portion of my studies by publishing a monograph. It’s a historical work that focuses on the Burgundians of the period popularly called The Dark…
A brief and wholly inadequate explanation for my silence, this week.
Somehow, I’ve fallen behind on everything, in the past couple of weeks, so I’ve been trying to catch up a little this weekend. I’ve also been sorting through spreadsheets, trying to figure out the fluctuations of millions of dollars flowing into Tiverton’s school district. While I had Microsoft Excel open, I thought I’d relax the…
Surely family schedules had more to do with it than the less whimsical shifts of nature, but New England’s famed “foliage season” had a mythical quality, when I was still an adolescent Jersey boy. Actually, “mythical” is not quite right, because I’d had some experience of it and, of course, New Jersey lacks neither trees…
My peculiar visage is currently at the top of Ted Nesi’s WPRI.com blog, mentioning my essay in Proud to Be Right: His contribution is a seven-page essay titled “A Nonconforming Reconstruction” that recounts his experience as a Gen X conservative and his belief that “the peculiarity of our time is that one must … be…
After a mild complaint from another Justin Katz, with whom I’ve been communicating since I discovered his band online in 1999, that I was only using justinkatz.com as a forwarding site to Dust in the Light, which at this point is essentially a manual summary feed of what I write here and elsewhere, I felt…
