Last week I was in a Borders book store. I was hoping to find a reference book that I needed. I didn’t want to order it on the inter-net and wait for it to be delivered. I needed it then!
Just inside the store as I entered was a woman seated at a small table about [...]
Author Archives: John Daly
Book Signing
April 16, 2009 – 8:29 am
Valentines Day
February 23, 2009 – 7:22 am
February 14, 2009
I was in a grocery store at 7:30AM on Valentines Day. I had already delivered my own personal Valentine message to my own valentine. I was there only to make a small grocery purchase.
Immediately ahead of me in the express checkout line was a young man. I estimated he was about 16 years [...]
Evolution of a Writer
February 10, 2009 – 6:51 am
February 10, 2009
I have occasionally been asked how and why I became a writer.
In my former life I was a civil trial attorney. My specialty in law is negligence. I represented various casualty insurance companies that wrote coverage for legal and medical mal-practice, automobile and product liability protection, and other policies with similar liability protection.
I took hundreds [...]
how do you write a novel?
December 15, 2008 – 7:37 am
December 15, 2008
I have talked to many people who tell me, “I’ve always wanted to write a book. I have a great idea for a book. Someday I’m going to write a book. And just as soon as—–.”
Notice the key word is “someday”. Why not start writing today? If not today, why not start tomorrow? [...]
it sometimes takes a funeral
December 13, 2008 – 9:14 am
Some vignettes tell a sad story and some tell a happy story. This one tells a little of both.
I recently attended a funeral viewing service honoring the memory of the deceased who died in her early fifties. Needless to say her mother was devastated. No parent wants to outlive her children.
This mother had three other adult children who attended [...]
different perspectives
December 9, 2008 – 7:21 am
I was invited to a semi-formal brunch at the home of a friend recently. It was serendipitously scheduled on December 7, which was the anniversary of the date of the bombing of Pearl harbor in 1941. The guests were a mixture of all ages, including people who actually were teen-agers in 1941. They somehow unintentenally graviated toward [...]
the wedding dress
December 5, 2008 – 2:21 pm
This notice appeared recently in the classified section of a large city’s newspaper.
FOR SALE: Very beautiful, brand new wedding dress, never been worn.
There is most certainly a story behind the notice. But is it a story of relief as she canceled the wedding because she was about to marry the wrong person? Or is it a story of heart break because she was abandoned on the [...]
oatmeal raisin cookies
December 4, 2008 – 1:34 pm
I was in a Bakery/Delicatessen section of a large grocery store recently looking for something in the freshly baked cookie category. A very pretty, very southern talking, twenty something year old woman was behind the bakery counter.
“Do you have any oatmeal raisin cookies?,” I asked her, they being my favorite cookie.
She said she did. I [...]
storage boxes
November 27, 2008 – 12:20 pm
Maybe some of you can identify with this scenario that I witnessed recently. It happened in an office supply store. I was waiting next in line to take my turn with the check out cashier. First in line was a man with a shopping cart filled to capacity with large storage size plastic boxes. He [...]
