Author Archive
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Today’s TODAY Show Interview
It was an almost eerie feeling today when I learned that TODAY on NBC featured a man who had been struck in the head by a baseball in his first major league at-bat seven years ago and will be given a special opportunity to appear in another major league game in early October. The similarities [...]
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Your Amazon/Facebook/Twitter Comments Are Important
If you’ve read my novel Knuckleball: The Uncertainties of (a) Life, I urge you to express your comments on amazon.com. It’s important because it shows browsers and potential readers that many persons have read the book and that their comments are thus and such. I formerly placed comments on my website but they became so [...]
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A Writing Strategy
Yesterday, I spoke to a very attentive group of 80+ members of the Service Club in Indianapolis, an association of military veterans. Having served in the armed forces, they knew what strict organization and rule-following meant. Thus, I wanted to share the strictness of the regimen I followed in writing my fictional novel. All writers resort [...]
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Reactions from Readers
Readers of my novel Knuckleball: The Uncertainties of (a) Life inspire me. Here are the latest examples: I was reading comments about the book on amazon.com last Friday night and saw that a second person has now said they are going to make positive changes to the way in which they live their life as a [...]
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Crazy Schedule
I’ve been away from Indiana a significant amount the past month as part of the promotional effort for my novel Knuckleball: The Uncertainties of (a) Life, and, thus, I’ve not been blogging. On June 2, I spoke about alumni relations and what makes an effective alumni chapter when I appeared before the Asheville-Western North Carolina [...]
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Service Above Self
The title of this blog is actually the motto of Rotary. I use it for today’s blog because it’s the subject matter of a keynote speech I made to Evansville (Indiana) Rotary’s community service appreciation day luncheon, June 26. (THE SPEECH CAN BE SEEN IN THE VIDEOS SECTION OF THIS WEBSITE.) I’ve excerpted the following: “I [...]
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The Ultimate Volunteers
I’ve not posted for more than three weeks due to a trip I took overseas. While flying, I had plenty of opportunity to think about a multitude of subjects. When my wife and I travel abroad, we always return home renewed in our knowledge that all of us in the U.S. have untold opportunities to [...]
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Tear-Jerking Review of Knuckleball
“I had trouble seeing the pages at times because of the tears in my eyes. Tears of joy and tears of sadness. Both were necessary to achieve perhaps the most powerful ending I can recall. I thoroughly enjoyed the book, and I’m telling everyone to read it. Congratulations on such a wonderful job of telling [...]
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What Role Are You Playing?
A friend wrote me today, after completing his reading of my novel, “After I got to (certain point in the book), I could not put it down. I had trouble seeing the pages at times because of the tears in my eyes. Tears of joy and tears of sadness. Both were necessary to achieve perhaps [...]
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Our Amazing Brains
What a coincidence that my book about baseball’s and life’s knuckleballs is published in a spring when R.A. Dickey, knuckleball specialist with the New York Mets, released a book about his life. His story is inspiring, somewhat like that of my fictional character, but R.A. has overcome far different personal challenges than those of the [...]
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