A few weeks ago, I had to travel to Denver for business. I elected to drive instead of fly. The weather was glorious, and I had a book on tape—what could be better? Driving also allowed me to stop into Rock Springs and Laramie and few other spots to do some research for the novel
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The Way Back GULag is the acronym for the government agency that administered the main Soviet forced labor camp systems in the early 1900’s. In Romanized Russian that’s “Glavnoye upravlyeniye ispravityel’no-trudovih lagyeryey i koloniy” which means “Chief Administration of Corrective Labor Camps and Colonies.” The term “Gulag” quickly morphed to represent the camps themselves, which
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They stole his kidney . . . A friend of a friend of mine is a frequent business traveler. To keep his identity safe, I’ll call him Bill. Bill was recently in Atlantic City for an important meeting with some new clients. Afterward, he went to a local bar to kill some time before his
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Cranford For those of you who love stories like Pride and Prejudice, have I got a TV mini-series for you—the BBC’s five-part Cranford. The series is set in the 1840’s in England in the fictional village in North West England and focuses primarily on a handful of the town’s single middle-class ladies who are forced
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Wear some financial underpants I graduated from BYU with a Master’s degree in accounting. BYU’s accounting program is regularly ranked as one of the top three schools in the nation. Whoa. Go, John. I ought to be some kind of financial superstar, right? You’d think I would have come out of that program with all
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