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Hitchhikers Guide to Retirement

I RETIRED FROM NASA (as Deputy Chief, KSC Education Office) at the end of 1996. I've now been retired more years than I worked for any one employer (the longest two, NASA 13, Boeing 11). And in some ways these so-called 'Golden Years' are indeed the best of my life....

Donald A. Wollheim, DAW Books, and Me

MOST PEOPLE ARE UNAWARE that I'm the author of the first DAW novel. The reason that fact is not well know is fairly straightforward. Don wanted to start his new line with some big names. He persuaded two of the then biggest, Andre Norton and A.E. van Vogt, to...

Who Really Wrote Hard Choices?

WHILE HILLARY CLINTON was on her recent Hard Choices book tour, a writer/editor I know asked a perhaps difficult question: Who, he wondered, wrote it for her? Clearly, the writer presumed Hillary had not in fact written the book she was signing as her own. Having a...

When You Have a Choice . . .

PEOPLE OTHER THAN his devoted fans know Leonard Cohen primarily thru a few of his songs that became major hits, prominent among them "Suzanne", "Bird On The Wire", "Marianne" and "Hallelujah". Many others, including some recorded by other artists, such as Judy Collins...