Coming up with a title for my memoir was more challenging than I expected. I adapted my beginning title, “Working While Blind,” from the expression “driving while black,” as a main theme of the book was how I dealt with the subtle and not-so-subtle discrimination I experienced while working.
“That title is out-of-date,” a prospective publisher proclaimed at a local coffee shop.
When I passed on this comment to my wife, Lisa, she suggested “Working and Loving While Blind,” pointing…..
About a year ago, I wrote a blog post about how, since 1984, I have created and recorded funky arrangements or settings of familiar Christmas carols, recorded the results in my home studio, and used the music as Christmas cards. You can read this post at
http://peteraltschul.authorsxpress.com/2012/12/13/arranging-tunes-vs-resetting-texts/
At the same time, I was putting the finishing touches on new settings of texts of “It Came Upon the Midnight Clear,” “Once in Royal David’s City,” and “I Saw Three Ships.” I…..
Football invades our house in late August, with no firm retreat date. Joseph, my seventeen-year-old stepson, is the starting noseguard on the Rock Bridge High School football team, and Louis, my fifteen-year-old stepson, plays percussion in the Rock Bridge band. Normally, the season ends by Halloween — but not this year.
The Rock Bridge Bruins won their first three games handily, and were ranked second in the state of Missouri, but then lost their next game at home to an…..