BUSINESS The World of Software Engineering In that milieu of constant flux and change of focus, is it possible to be, and remain, a true professional? This discourse examines the question, “Wha...
Rhetoric | In Business, What is a True Professional?
Criticism | An Essay About an Essay About a Book
An Essay about an Essay about a Book In Manfred Wolf’s book, Almost a Foreign Country, subtitled “A Personal Geography in Columns and Aphorisms,” his chapter “The End of Nostalgia” critiques a non...
Poetry | Purity
PURITY (c) 2014, 2020 by Vernon Miles Kerr, vernonmileskerr.com (Recite to the sound of a military snare drum, played in march cadence) Down the WORLD of peace. Up the WORLD of war. Give us ...
Criticism | Email comments from an old friend and Critical Writing Professor
Here is a helpful and very much appreciated comment emailed to me by my old friend Manfred Wolf, who was my Critical Writing professor at San Francisco State. Here are his comments: “Vern’s sto...
Rhetoric | The Question of a God
The Question of a God If the God of human tradition exists, then what defines that God? Is it the Torah, the Christian Testament, the Book of Mormon, the writings of Buddha—or any of the others? I...
Fiction | "The Haole" A short story about racial prejudice
I don’t know if our family is unusual for people on the West Coast, but by Christmas we will have been to Hawaii six times, to China once and to Japan two times, but none of us have ever been to Eu...
Fiction | Rhetoric | Poetry | Criticism | Speculative Science
The title of this piece mirrors the newly posted tag-line for the blog. It is an attempt to categorize my “body of work.” Perhaps that is not the right term. ”Body” implies a somewhat organized a...
Passion for Writing--and Reading!
This was the first post of a new blog by Vernon Miles Kerr, writer by avocation even if not fully by vocation. Everything here will be presented on a take-it-or-leave-it basis. If you like it, tha...