jtaggart's Blog

• A Discovery in Writing

  January 20, 2010

  • My favorite short story in all the years I've scribbled, is the one I wrote for an Elderhostel class at the Grandaddy of writers' workshops at the University of Iowa back in the early 80's Until that class, I had never been able to finish the stories I started  with the exception as a faithful childhood contributor to long departed Aunt Dolly's page in the Sunday Chronicle. Elderhostel was a ...
  • Continue Reading » 0 Comments

• Big Dreams and Reality

  December 18, 2009

  • Way back when I was eight and a regular contributor of short stories, bad poetry and letters to dear old aunt Dolly's page in the SF Chronicle, among other things, I dreamed of being the girl reporter who circled the world. It was reinforced by the time our small town high school initiated a journalism class, and I eventually became editor. My dream lasted through junior college and crashed when ...
  • Continue Reading » 0 Comments

• Comments on "The Story of a Marriage"

  July 22, 2009

  • I have hesitated to write these comments, mostly because the author is so highly regarded, has won several writing awards, and who am I to be so critical?  I have been doing some self-evaluation as a result, and I still come to the same conclusion. I write this sorrowfully because after hearing him in conversation with Michael Krasny, on KQED radio, I immediately got and read Andrew Sean ...
  • Continue Reading » 0 Comments

• A Slice of History

  November 11, 2008

  • Veterans Day used to be called Armistice Day, and today is the 90th anniversary of the original armistice which ended WW I. My father was an Infantry officer in the 184th Machine Gun Battalion, and was wounded shortly after the battle that followed the events described below. This article was published in the local newspaper of Ontario, California a few years later while he was a student at ...
  • Continue Reading » 0 Comments

• Strange, They Didn't Complain Before

  November 4, 2008

  • And, another blah blah blah from McCain supporters I'm really getting tired of, is the blathering on about how we absolutely need the checks and balance of a a divided Congress and President if both Obama and Congress put the Democrats in power. It must be my memory has deteriorated even more than I thought with age because strangely I cannot recall any such uproar from the Republicans when they ...
  • Continue Reading » 0 Comments