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Nov.20.2009
After spending eight days in the heart of Thailand — the 10-million-soul city of Bangkok and tourist destinations of Pattaya and Hua Hin — on what was ostensibly a golf familiarization trip but turned into a quick-fire cultural education, I'm tempted to take that nation's long-standing path toward...
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Dec.16.2008
As I read with wonder the pretty damned good fantasy story that's shaping up to be my 11-year-old daughter's first attempt at the novelistic form, I realize — while mustering as much objectivity as a proud parent can — that she's destined to be a far better wordsmith than I. She's an inveterate...
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Nov.05.2008
They'll come without notice, still. The tears, I mean. I've spent the better part of today in an emotional haze born of exhaustion and pent-up hope, getting little or no work done, surfing for photos from the nation and world over showing people, citizens of the planet we share, celebrating Barack...
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Nov.02.2008
If insanity is repeating the same action and expecting a different result, I was definitely going insane tracking this election via the mainstream media and blogosphere. So, like many Obama supporters pining for change and tired of endless tsunamis of negativity from what's left of the once-vital...
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Oct.22.2008
Yesterday I canvassed a lower-middle class precinct near downtown Reno, Nev., which is in Washoe County, which is, by all accounts, perhaps the final battlefront in the presidential election come Nov. 4. I banged on maybe 20 doors and found about 10 residents at home in the middle of a Tuesday...
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Sep.18.2008
Now that I can no longer answer Barack Obama campaign honcho David Plouffe's insistent and alluring e-mails with a button-click of "$25 or more" — feeding the kids and paying the (wobbly) mortgage take precedence — I've decided to dive into the frenetic stretch-run world of retail...
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About Victor
I'm a West Coast native with 30 years of experience as a writer, editor and publisher of non-fiction. I am currently co-publisher of Fairways + Greens Magazine, a Reno, Nevada-based golf, travel and lifestyle publication that covers the sport and ancillary...
Victor’s Favorite Books
The Sound and the Fury, Light In August, Madame Bovary, Crime and Punishment, The Road, The Grapes of Wrath, The Magus, The Magic Mountain, The Stand, The...