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World Without Pain: The Story of a Search
Invisible People
The Relocation Blues
Adriana’s Family
The Woman Who Fell Backwards and Other Stories
Apocalypse Bluff and Other Stories
The Senescent Nomad Hits the Road
Invasive Procedures: Stories
Heroes and Other Illusions: Stories
Bedlam Battle: An Omnibus of the One Thousand Series
After the Fireflood
Caliban’s Children
The Fantasy Book Murders
Opting Out and Other Departures
Sunflower: A Novel
America Redux: Impressions of the United States After Thirty-Five Years Abroad
Fear or Be Feared: Fantasies
Writing as a Metaphysical Experience
Reviews and Reflections on Books, Literature, and Writing
The One Thousand: A Novella
The One Thousand: Book Two: Team of Seven
The One Thousand: Book Three: Black Magic Bus
The One Thousand: Book Four: Deconstructing the Nightmare
After the Rosy-Fingered Dawn: A Memoir of Greece
The Misadventures of Mama Kitchen: A Novel
Dark Mirrors: Dystopian Tales
Love Children: A Novel
Painsharing and Other Stories
The Dragon Ticket and Other Stories
Tag Archives: United States
Another Look: America Redux: Impressions of the United States After Thirty-Five Years Abroad by John Walters
Update February 25th, 2023: The U.S. political and social landscape continues to quake, and this book retains its relevance. Update February 15th, 2020: For some reason I had a strong urge to repost this description of the memoir I wrote … Continue reading
A Second Look: America Redux: Impressions of the United States After Thirty-Five Years Abroad
Update February 15th, 2020: For some reason I had a strong urge to repost this description of the memoir I wrote upon returning to the United States after spending thirty-five years overseas. Perhaps it’s due to the sense of displacement … Continue reading
The United States Considered as a Jigsaw Puzzle of Disparate Tourist Attractions
Recently I have been writing a series of articles about the United States, moving state by state, one after another, from west to east. Because they are written for travelers, the articles deal mostly with places tourists might want to … Continue reading
Home
I sit here in the small rented house I share with some of my sons in Pacific Beach, San Diego, and I ruminate about home. At the end of my memoir on my hippy travel days, “World Without Pain: The … Continue reading
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Balance
After reading the last chapter, “Askew”, one of my sons who doesn’t live with me wrote and said, “Why are you so down on the US? Sure it’s got problems, but I’ve built a good life here and in many … Continue reading
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Tagged Henry David Thoreau, travel, United States, Walden, Writing
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Askew
I have been wanting to write this for a few weeks now but I haven’t, for two reasons. First of all, I haven’t had the time. I finally found a job. It’s a freelance writing gig; I contracted with a … Continue reading
Gladiators
I had always enjoyed watching football. If the two teams know what they are doing, if they are playing with a modicum of unity, there is something fluid about it. You might almost say it is something like a violent … Continue reading
Outsiders
I have been pondering what I wrote about rejection. In that essay I made the implication that everyone around me was part of a whole which for some inexplicable reason had rejected me. After I wrote it, however, I took … Continue reading
Rejection
Why the disquiet? What is wrong? In order to get to the root of the malaise the problem must be analyzed. I have returned to the United States of America with some of my sons. We have fled west to … Continue reading
The Second Stratum
I have lately been concerned, nearly obsessed, with the homeless I see around me on the streets of San Diego. Why? Because it’s easy to empathize with them. I am jobless at the moment and it is not easy to … Continue reading