Same Black Line Drawn on Local Author Drawn on You Remember the 90s? Skateboarding home from school, getting stoned and making it with your girlfriend to the latest Pavement CD, then playing SimCity until dinnertime? Well, I don’t, but I did do my version of that in the early 80s. It’s the rock music of […]
Author Hits Key Numerological Milestone A quick post to let everyone know that Shopkeep’s daily word-count rests comfortably at 44,420. Sounds like a good stopping point for now; sounds like time for a refreshing break. At this rate I’ll have the draft in another month or so.
Author Reports from the Literary Trenches Following the completion of Dixiana and its sequels, I took a year off from ‘the chair,’ as Appalachian literary bard Ron Rash would term it, or at least the long-form sort as readers of my poetry saga will recall. I needed a break. The seven-year traverse in writing, editing and publishing […]
“There’s nothing you can hold for very long.” ~Robert Hunter I first encountered Wallace Douglas Dawson III a few months before we were formally introduced. We were the same age, on the same track—media arts—and so it happened that we shared one of the non-core classes all college students are expected to take: a modicum […]
Change is in the air.
Here’s a poem I found in a notebook and transcribed. I miss my mom. Picture of My Folks James D. McCallister
Tonight, 02-22-20, hear me LIVE discussing the Dixiana novel series and other esoteric matters with my friend Tzima Brown on her long running local talk show. Tune in from 8-11pm EST at makethepointradio.com, and feel free to call in at (803)799-8255!
Last month the local community said goodbye to a figure of renown, Col. Jack Van Loan, USAF (ret.), a true friend to our neighborhood, and to me personally. He will be missed. Here is a brief essay about our relationship. When I first met the man I would come to think of as The Colonel, […]
Sure. We have at least three more Edgewater County novels in stages of publication prep, a memoir in the oven, and who knows what else in terms of writing projects heading down the Mind Harvest Press pike. But wait; there’s more. The era of James D. McCallister: Poet has arrived.
Where hath the year gone? And why haven’t I been blogging about Dixiana (or anything)? Answers await. But first, a little story about today, 10/23.
