Lake Superior worries
Whenever I talk to my California friends these days the conversation easily moves toward the drought there. It is serious and I hope it ends soon. Predictably, I say to them “I wish we could send some of our Lake Superior water to you.” Sigh. Yes. Again this year the lake is up – seven inches […]
Tourists to Cuba
My wife, Mim, and I are still energized by our January, 2015, trip to Cuba. We had signed up via Road Scholar early in 2014 and throughout the summer and fall eagerly awaited the mid-winter time when we would head south. Then came December 17, 2014, when Presidents Obama and Castro announced their intentions to improve […]
Purchasing my newest book
My latest book Discovering Beloit: Stories Too Good to be True? can be purchased in Beloit, Wisconsin, at Turtle Creek Book Store (a Barnes & Noble affiliated operation) and at Visit Beloit. On line it is available via Barnes & Noble, Amazon, and iUniverse. Just type in the title. I also have some copies of my […]
Discovering Beloit, the novel. It’s out.
Discovering Beloit: Stories Too Good to be True? A novel by Tom Warren This tale takes place a few years into the future. It features a Beloit, Wisconsin, high school journalism teacher and his class. He is frustrated by the disappearance of investigative journalism that has accompanied the decline of traditional newspapers. They call […]
Books I am reading.
Here are some recent books that have interested me enough to mention them to you: The Catcher in the Rye. Yes. The recent PBS special on Salinger hooked me, so I bought the book by the same name (co-authored by David Shields and Shane Salerno) along with a new copy of Catcher. I want to give […]