Blog Archive
Authors often maintain blog archives as a way of preserving the everyday reflections that never make it into their books. A well-kept archive becomes a companion volume, offering readers glimpses of the writer's thinking between major projects. For someone whose published work spans memoir travelogue and historical fiction, such a collection of posts can illuminate the research trips, reading lists, and personal moments that shaped each narrative. The archive page itself functions as both an index and a quiet invitation, signaling to returning readers that there is more to discover beyond the front catalogue and inviting newcomers to browse the writer's evolving perspective over time.
The rhythm of a writer's blog tends to follow the seasons of inspiration rather than a strict publishing schedule. Some months bring dense bursts of essays tied to current events or anniversaries, while other periods hold quieter entries about family milestones, travel memories, or favorite books. Readers who scroll through a full archive often notice recurring themes that echo the writer's larger preoccupations, whether that is the pull of a particular country, the lessons of a turbulent decade, or the small human details that give history its texture. This long view rewards patience, turning a simple list of dates into something closer to a personal diary shared in public.
Browsing an archive also offers a chance to revisit posts that may have been overshadowed when they first appeared. An early reflection on baseball season, for instance, might later resonate differently once the writer has explored related ideas in a novel. Holiday-themed pieces about meaningful gifts or candle-lighting rituals can return each year with renewed warmth, while essays on race, government, or public memory tend to gain weight as the national conversation shifts. The archive preserves these moments at their original voice, allowing readers to measure how both the writer and the world have changed since a particular post was first typed and published.
For a writer whose work draws on real places, an archive often doubles as a travelogue of the mind. Entries written during or after a journey through Ireland, or reflections sparked by time spent in Dublin, can sit alongside more domestic notes about an ordinary day, a season's first snowfall, or the smile of a friend. Over time these small observations accumulate into something richer than any single essay, tracing the inner map of an author whose imagination moves between continents and decades. Readers who follow the archive in order frequently report that the posts feel like stepping stones leading toward the writer's books, each one a quiet preparation for the longer narratives that follow.
A blog archive ultimately serves as a bridge between author and reader, holding the conversational middle ground that lies between published books and private life. It is where subscribers receive notifications of new writing, where excerpts can be tested and revised, and where the writer can experiment with humor, memory, or argument without the formal weight of a finished manuscript. Over months and years, the archive becomes a record of creative growth, capturing fleeting insights about history, family, colleagues, and the changing shape of America itself. For readers, it offers something a book cannot: the ongoing, unfinished conversation that continues long after the final page has been turned.
Last 30 Posts
- It’s Baseball Season: Time To Smile (May 23, 2016)
- Lighting One More Candle To Celebrate Black History Month (February 25, 2016)
- Celebrating Black History Month (February 3, 2016)
- America’s Crucial Civil Rights Issue: Race (January 6, 2016)
- Wondrous Books Make Meaningful Holiday Gifts (December 3, 2015)
- For Public Defenders, ACJP Is A Godsend (November 10, 2015)
- One Man’s Blueprint For Social Justice For All (September 16, 2015)
- Two Humble Heroes Of The Civil Rights Movement, Now Angels (September 1, 2015)
- Lady Justice’s Blindfold Is Tear-Stained (August 25, 2015)
- Criminal Justice Novels Can Inspire Future Lawyers (August 12, 2015)
- How the Original Atticus Finch*, the Righteous Lawyer in To Kill A Mockingbird, along with Other Dramatic Works, Influenced My Becoming A Public Defender And Writing My Novel, Gideon’s Children (July 14, 2015)
- The Rule Of Law: Without Trust It Fails (June 10, 2015)
- The Rule Of Law: Accountability Requires Recognition Of Everyone’s Humanity (June 7, 2015)
- The Rule Of Law: Fair Or Foul (May 27, 2015)
- The Force Behind Gideon’s Children (May 19, 2015)
- Pluses And Minuses I: Race And The Police (May 12, 2015)
- Cross Currents (April 18, 2015)
- When Freedom Of Speech Bumps Heads With Civil Rights (March 22, 2015)
- Blog Posts (March 18, 2015)
- Selma Revisited (March 13, 2015)
- Hopeful Beginnings (March 3, 2015)
- Jim Crow: Yesterday and Today (February 25, 2015)
- Not All Lawyers Have Lost Their Inner Atticus Finch (February 23, 2015)
- The Problem Of Race In American Society: Part II (February 17, 2015)
- Supreme Ambitions: A Novel Look Inside The World Of Appellate Courts (February 1, 2015)
- Good News for Gideon’s Children (January 24, 2015)
- Martin Luther King, Jr., Day: A Time For All Of Us To Reflect, Then Renew Our Resolution To Expand Freedom and Equality (January 19, 2015)
- Public Defenders: Noble Warriors, Often Maligned (January 6, 2015)
- The Public Defender Crisis, Part II: Possible Solutions (December 17, 2014)
- The Public Defender Crisis (December 3, 2014)
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- January 24, 2015
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- December 17, 2014
- December 3, 2014
- November 18, 2014
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