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Bill Burkett

So I bought a nice vest with ribknit collar — hard to find since Eddie Bauer stopped selling…

This week I found the same vest offered in other colors and ordered one.

2d ago

2d ago

Chapter 25: Greek to Her

Tacoma was a GI town, no question, during the Vietnam conflict. Olympia was closer to Fort Lewis, but Olympia was an uptight little state…

4d ago

Chapter 25: Greek to Her

4d ago

Liquor Conference in Seattle

I was sitting at one of those small bar tables near the lobby entrance, nursing my drink, when the blonde came into the bar from the street…

Mar 25

Liquor Conference in Seattle

Mar 25

Chapter 5: Curriculum change

High-school journalism class: putting the school newspaper to bed, typing last-minute stories late into the golden January afternoon…

Mar 13

Chapter 5: Curriculum change

Mar 13

Cortisol released by your adrenal gland during stressful situations can result in adverse effects…

Piroshki (Russian, literally a “small pie”)are Russian puff pastries…stuffed with…meat, cheese, or vegetable filling— C/f Webster’s

Mar 9

Cortisol released by your adrenal gland during stressful situations can result in adverse effects…

Mar 9

The Ethics of Forensic Science

THERE IS AN amazing amount of politicking that goes on behind the scenes in law-enforcement. For almost a decade I worked where there were…

Mar 6

Mar 6

Chapter 52: Ohio road trip

Avenoir. N. the desire that memory could flow backward. We take it for granted that life moves forward. But…you can see where you’ve been…

Feb 23

Chapter 52: Ohio road trip

Feb 23

The reason a writer writes a book is to forget a book and the reason a reader reads one is to…

Chapter 51: Thomas Wolfe’s home town

Feb 18

The reason a writer writes a book is to forget a book and the reason a reader reads one is to…

Feb 18

Énouement: the bittersweetness of having arrived in the future, seeing how things turn out, but not…

Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows

Feb 13

Énouement: the bittersweetness of having arrived in the future, seeing how things turn out, but not…

Feb 13

So I knelt there at the delta, at the alpha and the omega,

at the cradle of the river and the seas.

Feb 11

So I knelt there at the delta, at the alpha and the omega,

Feb 11

Bill Burkett

Bill Burkett

Professional writer, Pacific Northwest. 20 Books: “Sleeping Planet” 1964 to “Venus Mons Iliad” 2018–19. Most on Amazon for sale. Il faut d’abord durer.

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