Have you seen this? Yep, that’s a lawmaker getting ready to go nighty-night right there in the office. The NPR story, which can be found here, says it is a matter of circumstances for many of our elected officials: It is expensive to live in D.C., to plunk down an […]
Just having fun with the Star Wars crawl creator app today, while seriously hopped up on pralines, peppermint bark, and other holiday goodies in my kitchen. Thank God I don’t drink anymore, eh? Seriously, though, 100 years ago today, Emmett was on a train, headed back to Pensacola from Washington, […]
Did you know that there is more than one Emmett Wilson who lived in Pensacola during the turn of the last century? Neither did I — until I found this interesting little article: This article gave me great pause. It was a new article with new information — which is […]
I am breathing a huge sigh of relief, as I have just submitted the final grades for my last class of 2015. Don’t get me wrong. I love being a teacher. I love the interaction with students; I enjoy helping them become better writers. But this turned out to be […]
This was an interesting find the other day. Yes, this is the veritable “Who’s Who” of Florida’s legal and political leadership as of 1899. If you were ANYBODY of importance, your mug was here, in this eye-test of a montage. I went through every single doggone one of these images. […]
I’ve been writing my arse off on Emmett’s second chapter all week. I have a goal to pull down one of the big writing charts that decorate the walls of the writing cave today (Or, tonight, more likely, as I have the usual distractions: Grading a few papers, teaching a […]
Sometimes I wish I had access to a time machine, where I could pop in on Emmett now and then in his life, only for about five minutes, and offer a thought that would, perhaps, pull him back from the brink of some of the poor choices he made in […]
I came across this today. I wonder if this Frank Wilson is related to my Emmett Wilson. Emmett had several older brothers, mentioned in previous blog entries. One was named Francis Childria Wilson, Jr., after Emmett’s father. Frank Jr. died in 1943. Frank Jr. and his wife, May, only had […]
So, an update on Emmett’s story development. It is all going well. I’m still in the Part I – Exposition chapter, but it is coming along nicely. I’m working on the part where Emmett comes home for Christmas from West Florida Seminary. His life is about to change in a […]
This is another interesting resource I stumbled across this afternoon, the historic photograph site, What Was There. How it works: You locate the historic photograph. The website then superimposes the old photo over a current photo. You can fade in and out (from the past to the present), to […]
Tell my story. 