by Dan | Mar 30, 2019 | Black Sheep Manor, Blog, Featured
One of the new things we’re trying in Year Three here at stately Black Sheep Manor is a seed-starting system based on a U.K. technique called “soil blocking.” My stepfather, Michael Sasser, gave me his soil blocking equipment in the winter of...
by Dan | Nov 28, 2017 | Blog, Featured, Random Xarking
The one quote by Mao Zedong that every American seems to know is this one, from 1938: “Political power grows from the barrel of a gun.” A couple instances over the past week reminded me of this line. The more recent one was something Jeff Daniel’s...
by Dan | Nov 2, 2017 | Blog, Featured, Random Xarking
The excerpt from Donna Brazile’s new book published in Politico this morning isn’t getting big headlines on the major news sites yet. Yet. But Brazile’s account of what she found when she replaced Debbie Wasserman-Schultz as the head of the...
by Dan | Sep 9, 2016 | Blog, Featured, Random Xarking
I built my first blog in 2003. Called it Mysterious Erotic Technical Manual (which is now the name of my Tumblr). That was back when I was scared to death that revealing my personal thoughts in public would get me fired from my job as a newspaper editor. I was a bit...
by Dan | Feb 2, 2014 | Blog, Featured, Random Xarking
One of my first newspaper bosses was a wonderful, jovial mess of a man who endured the frazzled annoyances of running a small-town news staff because it allowed him the luxury of composing editorials. Which happened to be things of joy and beauty, by the way. He...
by Dan | Jan 3, 2014 | Blog, Books, Featured
Since I know some of you out there are thinking about publishing your own books and stories via ebook distribution, I thought it might be worthwhile for me to recap the lessons I’m learning as I go along. Just so you’ll have another data-point to use in...
