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ANOTHER KID

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FLORIDA

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If reviews had titles, I would offer \"Another Well-Written Book With a Stagnant Storyline\".

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The Minnesota Senate Judiciary Committee meeting to address the pattern of anti-Israel and anti-Jewish incidents at the University of Minnesota and the University administration’s handling of those incidents was schedule...

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A FAMLY TRAVEL REVELATION

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Despite that I'm generally fascinated by technology and devoted the majority of my career to tech development and sales (circuit board development and manufacturing, digital media servers, distributed audio and video, de...

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I keep thinking that today will be the day I get to return to my desk, door closed and head down, and focus on telling the tale of Isaac the Jew, the protagonist of my well-underway novel called ... Isaac the Jew. Nope. ...

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The release of The Twitter Gospels, my novel about a Jesuit seminarian struggling with a crisis of faith while caught within high stakes drama waged between conversative and progressive factions in the Catholic Church, i...

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I’ve heard it said with regards to the war between the United States and Vietnam that the USA lost the war but won the peace. It’s a flippant way of pointing out that the decade-long, misguided, incompetent prosecution o...

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In the telling of the story of Isaac the Jew, who walked the elephant Abul-Abass from Baghdad to northern Germany between 798-802, I need to deal with the logistics of the feat in some realistic way. The details ranged f...

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Abul-Abass, the elephant gifted to King Charlemagne (aka King Charles, aka Karlos Magnus) by the caliph of the Islamic empire, Harun al-Rashid, in 802 AD, was a sensation. It's a safe bet that though they existed in lite...

","url":"https://davidhparish.com/f/isaac-the-jew-elephants-training","title":"Isaac the Jew: Elephant Training","summary":"Abul-Abass, the elephant gifted to King Charlemagne (aka King Charles, aka Karlos Magnus) by the caliph of the Islamic empire, Harun al-Rashid, in 802 AD, was a sensation. It's a safe bet that though they existed in lite...","date_modified":"2024-02-14T21:40:05Z"},{"id":"https://davidhparish.com/f/i-said-i-wouldnt-care-it-seems-i-lied","html_content":"

This whole \"be an author\" thing is interesting in so many ways. Especially, it seems, when the academic-turned-entrepreneur-turned-author sequence is teetering on the edge of publishing a first novel. There's so much I d...

","url":"https://davidhparish.com/f/i-said-i-wouldnt-care-it-seems-i-lied","title":"Essay: I Said I Wouldn't Care. I Was Wrong.","summary":"This whole \"be an author\" thing is interesting in so many ways. Especially, it seems, when the academic-turned-entrepreneur-turned-author sequence is teetering on the edge of publishing a first novel. There's so much I d...","date_modified":"2024-02-08T20:54:35Z"},{"id":"https://davidhparish.com/f/writing-project-the-twitter-gospels","html_content":"

PUBLISHING GETTING CLOSE AND AUDIOBOOK TINKERING

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It's not that I feel old, necessarily. Not usually. At sixty-three I'm trim(ish), relatively strong in the weight room, move around the tennis court well, bike, have good stamina and can knock out forty push-ups. OK. May...

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Full disclosure. Heading into this writing project, I really had no idea how I would portray the character of one of the novel’s two main characters, the elephant Abul-Abass. I knew Abul had to be a genuine character. T...

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As the early stages of Isaac’s story unfolded, I needed a backstory to explain why King Charles would send Isaac, along with his diplomats Lantfroi and Sigismond, to Baghdad. It's exactly this type of narrative twist tha...

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A crinkly grayscale memory of standing in a small combo gym/auditorium with some dozens of people remains in my mind’s eye, fifty years later. May 14, 1973. I know that not because I have freakishly accurate episodic me...

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Research for Isaac the Jew, so far, includes Jeff Sypeck's Becoming Charlemagne (loved it), a copy of The Arabian Nights (also known as 1001 Arabian Nights), which glorifies the caliph of the Islamic Empire during Charle...

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May 2022. We've been in Rome for two weeks, and following the initial shock of going from lovely, intimate, and comforting Florence to grand, busy, dirty, energetic, and miraculous Rome, we're finding our Italian urban r...

","url":"https://davidhparish.com/f/travel-rome","title":"Travel: Rome","summary":"May 2022. We've been in Rome for two weeks, and following the initial shock of going from lovely, intimate, and comforting Florence to grand, busy, dirty, energetic, and miraculous Rome, we're finding our Italian urban r...","date_modified":"2023-10-12T21:01:34Z"},{"id":"https://davidhparish.com/f/writing-project-isaac-the-jew","html_content":"

Welcome! As you've seen by now, I'm in the process of self-publishing my first novel, The Twitter Gospels. It's a book I started writing about six years ago, shortly after retiring from a career spent mostly in B2B techn...

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For sure, I didn’t peak in high school.  It was central Jersey, mid-1970’s and I floated between all the cracks. Socially I was on the overly anxious fringe, academically second-tier, a good tennis player on an un-loved ...

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I thought about tracking Archie down for decades. Easy enough to do if I was serious about it, even without a last name. I remember him as tall and could never shake the impression he was harboring some amount of lizard ...

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Sadie’s slow decline, underway for nearly a year, is accelerating. Unfortunately, I’ve seen this beloved-old-dog-reaching-the-end movie before, a few times in fact, and know just how the final scenes unfold, which is why...

","url":"https://davidhparish.com/f/sadie-in-decline","title":"Essay: Sadie in Decline","summary":"Sadie’s slow decline, underway for nearly a year, is accelerating. Unfortunately, I’ve seen this beloved-old-dog-reaching-the-end movie before, a few times in fact, and know just how the final scenes unfold, which is why...","date_modified":"2019-09-02T20:00:00Z"},{"id":"https://davidhparish.com/f/i-miss-my-book-club","html_content":"

The typical response after mentioning something about my book club is a questioning “really”, followed by some variation on how interesting it must be. I’m certain the surprise in the response follows the expectation tha...

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