Howard McEwen

So I’ve a another new hobby: Lacto-fermenation. Best known as homemade sauerkraut. Here’s what I’ve got so far after some false-starts and multi-failures. Experiment One – traditional sauerkraut 1 head of green cabbage 1.5 Tablespoon salt 1 tablespoon caraseed Ferment for 9 days. Maybe a little too salty but a success! Second experiment – started […]

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Here’s an excerpt from Daddy Issues. In this bit, the main character has a gun and has the man who hurt his daughter in his sights. What’s he do? Is a violent society useful? He writes: ### “Pocketing Dad’s .38 wasn’t planned either. But I had it. I knew dad had it for years and while […]

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For the past year and a half, I was involved in a book club. The goal from the beginning was to read new fiction and discuss it. This was good for me because I rarely read new releases. Having the book club focused like this was a way to force myself to read outside of […]

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Sometime in 2008 I was doing the pre-internet equivalent of web browsing – aimlessly roaming the public library. I’d pick up books, sample a bit then move onto something else. In the ‘BIOGRAPHY’ section a slim, 130 page blue book caught my attention. It was William Goebel: The Politics of Wrath by James C. Klotter. […]

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You can find links to the short story at Amazon and BN.com for the Kindle and Nook @ facebook.com/prescottcarmichaeljaunts Here’s the description Just fired and sitting in a bar, Jake Gibb gets a phone call. It’s a job offer from the mysterious investment advisor Prescott Carmichael. Jake soon learns providing ‘client service’ involves more than […]

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I talk with 700-WLW’s Scott Sloan and Tracy Jones here about the importance of keeping your beneficiaries up-to-date. As Sloanie said, “It’s a five minute fix”.

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Last week I got a call every day (and twice on Thursday and Friday) from clients and friends telling me they were unemployed. That was 7 non-lazy, skilled people losing their jobs. Of course, people have called me in the past every so often and people are losing their jobs all-across the country for years […]

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