Jul 4, 2019 | Current Ned Note, Past Notes
In 1812, the Hayes family lived in Maryland. Taxes were being collected by the government for the war effort. A man came around from the government and collected a very large estate tax, which left the family nearly penniless until the next harvest. A few weeks later,...
Jun 21, 2019 | Current Ned Note, Past Notes
| Read this powerful piece by Steve Silberman in VOX about climate activist Greta Thunberg The 16-year-old climate activist’s radical approach to autism. Watching video of Greta Thunberg addressing the House of Parliament in London on April 24, it’s hard not to...
Jun 11, 2019 | Current Ned Note, On Writing, Past Notes
The Real World of Jasper Hunter || READ more about The Real World of Jasper Hunter >> Ascension Sunlight seeps out of the edge of the dark sky and leaks across the Black Rock Desert. Everywhere the light touched turns white, the heat of the day taking...
May 9, 2019 | Current Ned Note, Past Notes
Greta Thunberg — Teen Activist With Autism — Nominated for Nobel Peace...
Apr 15, 2019 | Current Ned Note, On Writing, Past Notes
I’m very excited to announced that Sinful Folk, my historical novel set in medieval England, will finally appear in Spanish as Pueblo Pérfido, with the original English jacket and the original layout and style. For those Spanish-speaking readers,...
Mar 16, 2019 | Current Ned Note, Poetry
W.S. Merwin 1927-2019 The walls join hands and It is tomorrow : The birds clucking to the horses, the horses Doing the numbers for the hell of it, The numbers playing the calendars, The saints marching in, It seems only yesterday, when what I keep saying to myself is...
