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Posted April 10th, 2011 by Thomas Norman DeWolf
My computer crashed last Friday. I cannot describe the sickening feeling in my stomach when I realized that my best friend was on its last legs. I immediately rushed it to the technology hospital where expert advice was rendered. Super technical efforts were employed at great expense to save its life. After two insufferable days […]
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Posted March 31st, 2011 by Thomas Norman DeWolf
It’s late on Thursday night. I’m up alone. Sharon is asleep. When I wrote Inheriting the Trade the biggest challenge I faced was finding the time. With Gather at the Table, the challenge is working with my partner. Don’t get me wrong. I love working with Sharon Morgan. We work well together. We challenge each […]
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Posted March 28th, 2011 by Thomas Norman DeWolf
Shoah is the Hebrew word for “calamity.” It is generally used to describe the holocaust that occurred in Europe during World War II as Adolph Hitler led the extermination of millions of Jews, Gypsies, African Germans, homosexuals and disabled people. There is no doubt that this was one of history’s most horrific events. But there […]
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Posted March 14th, 2011 by Thomas Norman DeWolf
When I was growing up, an oft repeated admonition was that black people had to run faster, jump higher and be twice as good as white people if we aspired to catch up (much less get ahead) in an overwhelmingly white world. Over time, I surmised that must be true. I cannot tell you how […]
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Posted February 28th, 2011 by Thomas Norman DeWolf
My whole life I’ve loved cemeteries. Some people find that morbid. I find it fascinating and life-affirming. I’ve been known to pull off the road while driving just to check out a cemetery we encounter. Reading random headstones fires the imagination. I ran across John T. Dana’s headstone in a small cemetery in Massachusetts in […]
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Posted February 24th, 2011 by Thomas Norman DeWolf
A few days ago, Border’s filed for bankruptcy and began the process of closing down thirty percent of their stores in the United States. I can’t help but wonder what that will mean for people who love books, not to mention those who write them (like me). I am not doing the rah-rah for Border’s, […]
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Posted February 16th, 2011 by Thomas Norman DeWolf
In advance of our trip to Tobago last month, my writing partner Sharon Morgan mentioned that author Daniel Defoe used the island as his model for the one upon which Robinson Crusoe had been shipwrecked. I checked the audio version out from our library and put it on my iPod. It took a couple weeks–its […]
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Posted February 12th, 2011 by Thomas Norman DeWolf
Collaboration has never been my strong suite, at least not in the writing category. In my professional life (as a marketing communications consultant), collaboration is essential and I am known for being a good team player. But writing has always been a solitary pursuit. When it comes to writing, you will find me sitting alone, […]
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Posted February 7th, 2011 by Thomas Norman DeWolf
To follow up on Sharon’s “Writer’s Paradise” post, we hope these photos will highlight for you the beauty of Tobago, Richmond Great House, and how much Sharon, Lindi and I loved this working getaway… You’ll notice that there are no photos here of us actually working; of Sharon and me writing, of Lindi transcribing recordings […]
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Posted February 5th, 2011 by Thomas Norman DeWolf
Writing is never easy. It is hard to sort through the cacophony of messages reeling in one’s head and condense them down into readable form. But that is exactly what a writer must do. In collaborating with Tom DeWolf, I face the prospect of filling more than two hundred pages of a book that communicates […]
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