Author Archives: Robert Devereaux

The full impact of 9-11

Posted on September 11, 2006 by Robert Devereaux

Today’s my birthday.  The eleventh of September. I find it strange but not traumatizing to share this date with the tragedy that befell this nation five years ago today.  I suppose if I were in my teens or twenties, I … Continue reading →

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Aleister Crowley…

Posted on September 8, 2006 by Robert Devereaux

I’m currently reading Do What Thou Wilt, a biography of Aleister Crowley.  Great fun, about a real oddball who may have been the true father of Barbara Bush and therefore the grandfather of the anti-Christ plaguing the political scene. Yes, … Continue reading →

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What is this thing called blog?

Posted on September 6, 2006 by Robert Devereaux

Writers examine things.  They observe.  Infinitely curious creatures, these writers. So now that the website’s two weeks old, the blog too, allow me to muse about this process, what it means to me, and perhaps to you. At the moment, … Continue reading →

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The Teaching Company…

Posted on September 4, 2006 by Robert Devereaux

Today, I want to recommend The Teaching Company, with whom I am not affilated in any way, other than as a satisfied customer. They’ve been at it, in one form or another, since 1990, finding some of the best American … Continue reading →

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Patriotism at its finest…

Posted on September 1, 2006 by Robert Devereaux

The mayor of Salt Lake City, Rocky Anderson, spoke truth to power a few days ago, boy, did he ever! This is a must read.  America continues to wake to its noblest ideals. May it not have come too late. … Continue reading →

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Donald Maass workshops…

Posted on September 1, 2006 by Robert Devereaux

If you’re at all in tune with the literary agent scene, you know Donald Maass‘s name. Through the good folks at Free Expressions, Don offers weekend and week-long workshops in writing the breakout novel. With lodging and meals included, these … Continue reading →

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World Horror Convention…

Posted on August 31, 2006 by Robert Devereaux

Writers are just like you and me.  They hate being pigeonholed. Take me, for example.  As the holder of a Ph.D. in English literature, I’m very widely read.  And I regard my work as literary fiction, which I’ve heard defined … Continue reading →

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The Interloper…

Posted on August 30, 2006 by Robert Devereaux

It’s so easy, as passionate as I feel about the way our beloved nation’s core values have been attacked in the last six years, its Constitution trashed by those who vowed to uphold it, to blast Bush and his puppet … Continue reading →

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Embrace tiger, return to mountain…

Posted on August 29, 2006 by Robert Devereaux

My wife and I are coming on to three years taking T’ai Chi with Michael and Sara Stenson, who themselves have done T’ai Chi for something like three decades.  Cheng Man-ch’ing brought the simplified form to the United States in … Continue reading →

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Crazy tenors and sopranos, but inspiring too…

Posted on August 28, 2006 by Robert Devereaux

I have a musical background:  Went to Oberlin College (though not in the Conservatory) as an undergrad 1965-69, did chorus and some leads in lots of Gilbert & Sullivan, sang in many choirs and a few local operas, went nuts … Continue reading →

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