William Torgerson > Recent Status Updates

Finished American Citizen, Global Citizen: How Expanding Our Identities Makes Us Safer, Stronger, Wiser - And Builds a Better World.

A storyteller, like any other sort of enthusiastic liar, is on an unpredictable adventure.

I find what Vonnegut notes here true in my case: "I never knew a writer's wife who wasn't beautiful."

Reading about Amazon release of J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire at 40% discount. Amazon appeared in 700 stories in June and July.

This book has me thinking it isn't standards that are a problem in education. It's maybe not even the tests, but it's the way the standards are taught (test prep) and the multiple-choice centered tests that are given.

Just finished a part from the late-90s when Amazon bought all of Toys R Us online Pokeman stock.

Trying to think of copyright free ways to make a dorm room visually interesting.

Bezos would tell investors he projected $74 million in sales by 2000 if things went moderately well, and $114 million in sales if they went better than expected. (Actual net sales in 2000: $1.64 billion.)

I like that the text suggests a writer consider "distinguishing physical or psychological features."

Love this!

“...the impulse to dream had been slowly beaten out of me by experience. Now it surged up again and I hungered for books, new ways of looking and seeing.”

I think Andre Dubus' "Townie" might be the New England cousin to Pat Conroy's "Death of the Great Santini."

Loving this book. It's a writer's book too with a lot "On Writing," especially of the autobiographical nature.

99 cents! My New York City urban fantasy novel A Viking on the Subway is now a Kindle book.

http://www.amazon.com/Viking-Subway-F...

In the pursuit of greater equality in our education system, from K to PhD, technology access, print literacies, and verbal skill all collide as requirements for even basic participation in an information-based, technology-dependent economy and society.

funny and poetic in more ways than one