Travels © 2010, 2016 by Vernon Miles Kerr When a provincial is called upon to travel His luggage includes the place from whence he came. He drags it along and holds it up as a ruler Against ev...

Sky Thoughts © 2010, 2016 by Vernon Miles Kerr So, in the days of time gone by The birdies sang and dusted the sky With their feathery wings While we kids watched and wished That we could do ...

With sickening regularity recently, Americans of all races have cringed, then agonized over police/citizen encounters that have gone horribly wrong.  Simple traffic-stops turn into bloody execution...

Why Our Country Desperately Needs a Credible Third Political Party, Now! During this 2016 election year, given the disappointing choices thrown up by America’s stultified, self-satisfied and fanat...

A Short Story by Tom Hanks Sometimes merely following the meandering stream of links occasioned by an original link shared by someone else, leads us to a happy and unexpected revelation.  Serendip...

Force © 2016 Vernon Miles Kerr Forces are nothing. All of them are nothing: The strong nuclear, the weak nuclear, the electromagnetic, Even gravity. We can describe their effects but not thei...

Since our last lesson was posted, I have completed and copyrighted the screenplay I mentioned in earlier lessons.  The script, “Survival In Paradise” is an adaptation of Manfred Wolf’s recently pub...

Introduction to Lesson Three In Lesson One of this series I started out by making sure that you understood that, until about a year ago, I knew NOTHING about screenwriting. The point of this entir...

© 2015 Vernon Miles Kerr The weaver’s loom, The weaver’s loom. Threads of color, Warp and woof. Shuttle flying left and right Beater slamming , through the night. Ceaseless. Lady Liberty on...

In the Interim © 2009, 2020 by Vernon Miles Kerr, VernonMilesKerr.com, WritersClass.net In the interim ‘tween dark and dark We scrape, we scratch, we endure— Assuming import. As that interi...