Monthly Archives: December, 2023

I came across a book in my vast library, written by a Santa Barbara Writers Group. Writers love to be discussed, so I’m sure they won’t mind me paraphrasing some of their work. The question was: “How does one go about becoming a writer? That is the eternal question.

President Harry Truman once said, “The lessons of history we don’t learn can come back to bite us. How quickly we forget things in politics. One thing I never forgot is the 1948 presidential election. The media were all agog over New York Governor Thomas E. Dewey beating “Give ‘em hell” Harry Truman.

You know the name, but you can't place it. If you're any kind of sports fan, you recognize it immediately. Alexander Yepremian's uncle was an NFL star, and his father was the head of a New York Soccer League.