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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...