pen4hire on February 18th, 2010

Book:Tell My Horse, by Zora Neale Hurston, in Hurston: Folklore, Memoirs, & Other Writings, part of the Library of America series, Literary Classics of the United States.

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pen4hire on October 27th, 2009

Destination: Barbados Book: The Diplomatic Dog of Barbados by Winfred Peppinck A MONTHLY GUEST POST by JESSIE VOIGTS of  WANDERING EDUCATORS

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pen4hire on September 29th, 2009

Destination: The Caribbean Book: A Rotten Person Travels the Caribbean: A Grump in Paradise Discovers that Any Place it’s Legal to Carry a Machete is Comedy Just Waiting to Happen,  by Gary Buslik A Guest Post by Jessie Voigts of Wandering Educators I am happy to share with you today a book that just made [...]

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pen4hire on June 4th, 2009

Destination: Caribbean and British Guiana Book: The Middle Passage by V. S. Naipaul Quotable Thursday quote: I’m the kind of writer that people think other people are reading. V. S. Naipaul The question is, if a man writes well, does it matter what kind of human being he is? I delayed reading V. S. Naipaul [...]

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pen4hire on May 3rd, 2009

Several weeks ago, Dr. Jessie Voight, from Wandering Educators, interviewed me.  She asked, among other things, “Can we ever read enough to get to know a place?  Even if we’ve been there?”  She also asked about some of my favorite books about different cultures. And she borrowed some of the photographs I have taken on [...]

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