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Welcome, traveler. Pour a cup and make yourself comfortable. You’ve arrived at a site created by an old writer for writers and readers alike. Let me begin by explaining who you’ve fallen in with. First, my name is Jack. Jack Tyler to be thorough, and you’ll find it on four books plus stories in several…
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I’m going to move a bit faster through the next couple of decades because, honestly, they’re something of a blur. We welcomed twin sons in 1976 and their little sister in 1978, and the eighties was the decade they grew up in. Obviously, they all reached the age of ten in the middle of the…
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Over the last few posts I have brought you up to 1975. Now I’m going to look at the 1970s as a whole from the perspective of me as a writer. This works neatly, as I left the navy at the end of 1969 and embarked on my new life as a civilian. There are…
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It’s the first week in October, 1969. On the third day the navy released me from my service contract, a Minority Enlistment, and on the seventh I turned 21. The navy had provided me with a wide range of skills and some grand adventures ~ that’s me in Hong Kong, standing in my boat as…
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When we last left our stalwart young hero, he was poised to join the military. Twelfth grade, which I had already decided (with my mother’s approval) that I would not be attending, began in September. My birthday is in October, and it was right around then that President Johnson began leaning into his intention to…
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A while back, I waxed poetic about Mrs. Warner, the brilliant fifth-grade teacher who gave me a nudge down the path of writing fiction. She was a huge influence on young master Jack, and no doubt about it. But she wasn’t all there was to school; many trials and tribulations were left to be endured.…
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