Welcome to Lesson Two.  Last time, I promised that Lesson Two would include some suggestions on navigating the ocean of information you’ll receive from the internet, some philosophical thoughts abo...

Welcome to Screenwriting 1A.  With this post you’ll notice a new writing category is added to our masthead, “DRAMA”.   Around two years ago my friend and former Critical Writing professor, Manfred ...

English Phonetics in Plain Text © 2014 Vernon Miles Kerr (as “English Phonetics in Qwerty”)  |  © 2017 Vernon Miles Kerr (as “English Phonetics in Plain Text) Introduction English is unique am...

# Denver Colorado   *    December 2015 © Vernon Miles Kerr Early winter. From my lakeside apartment in Denver, I never tire of watching the thousands of transient Canada Geese come and go each d...

Looking Over the Lake © 2015 by Vernon Miles Kerr, VernonMilesKerr.com Tired, retired; living on the 401K so diligently saved; Living the American Dream: looking over the lake by our apartments....

I just returned from a project in Virginia Beach, Virginia.  There was quite a contrast between snowy Virginia and Modesto when I returned.  Although the two cities are almost the same Latitude, (a...

A Solution to the Washington Redskins’ PR Dilemma As one of Native American ancestry, I proudly carry a card from the U.S. Department of the Interior entitled “Certificate of Degree of Indian Bloo...

   In 1973 our family first stepped in to a church service of the Worldwide Church of God  in the Senior Citizens Hall in Modesto, California.  During the more than 25 years we were members of that...

My review of Manfred Wolf’s book, Survival in Paradise, has been published in the San Francisco Westside Observer. Before being published in that journal I wasn’t familiar with how interesting the ...

© 2014 Vernon Miles Kerr What was it about those little two-and-a-half-inch model racecars, with their quality German clockwork propulsion systems, that bring back such fond memories? The clicket...