Dear Readers:

My friend Dan Poynter at Madman Graphics and I have been selecting and posting favorite Full Circle columns published between 2005 and 2012 in The Examiner, a daily newspaper serving Independence, Blue Springs, and Grain Valley, Missouri. Eventually, the goal is to publish a book of my favorite columns over the years. Since I wrote more than 300 columns, it is becoming a daunting task to compile favorites by subject matter.

However, as writer-blogger Neil Gaiman once quipped, “This is how you do it; you sit down at the keyboard and you put one word after another until its done. It’s that easy, and that hard.” Exactly what I am attempting to do at the moment.

Once the book of columns is complete, I will begin tackling the book I really want to write, a World War II memoir. Since I guess I really want to read it, I had better get about the business of writing it. I’m paraphrasing Toni Morrison who said it much better than I when she wrote, “If there’s a book that you want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it.”

Happy reading everyone.

More as we go along,
Kay

“What really knocks me out is a book that, when you’re all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn’t happen much, though.” –J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye