Tom's Writings and Musings

This is indeed the road less traveled. There is a part of me that has always wanted to be a writer but I've been intimidated by the process. I haven't taken a creative writing class since high school (and that was a less than satisfying experience) and my life has gone in other directions. Now the web allows me to publish my stuff without having to pass muster with an editor or publisher (expect myself). In the last year I've started a few projects and I have some here. Enjoy and let me know what you think. By the way, if the font looks unusual, it's called "Poor Richard." It's my tip of the hat to Benjamin Franklin who wrote Poor Richard's Almanac. If you're reading this on a Mac it the font may not come through.

Fiction

• My Name is Bill
  Summer 2005: This is about 70% composite of several patients I've met and 30% made up. This is pretty much the first story I did
• Final Report on Unsuccessful Contact with Earth
  Completed in February 2006: This turned out to be more difficult to write than I thought. I did this as a report given by a civilization on another planet who believes that Earth in the early 21^st is on the brink of space exploration.

Essays and Other Nonfiction

• My Turn submission for Newsweek
  This is an essay I submitted to Newsweek in 2005; they didn't publish it.
• My timeline of the events of Hurricane Katrina
  Hurricane Katrina in August 2005 and the horrible response of the govenment prompted me to write up a timeline and some observations