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05/12/2024

Happy Mother’s Day to our wonderful daughter and new mama Marji Mccoy!!!

02/14/2024

Here is wishing the best Valentines 💘 Day to my sweet wifey Teresa Violett McCoy and to our wonderful children Merry Hughes, Marji Mccoy and Andrew McCoy.
Special wishes to Elizabeth and James Hughes! I love you all. Blessings always!

11/07/2022

So true!

11/06/2022

If only folks would read, read, read widely by various sources and authors. Stop taking the bright colored pablum. Dig into rich details with strong arguments.

LOL!

Find us at forreadingaddicts.co.uk

11/05/2022

A wee poem that brings joy and a tear or two.

Today's poem.

11/26/2018

I’m off on a new adventure! To Georgia—the state, not the country—and the romance of the Peach State with its Spanish moss and palm trees, it’s romance: think Atlanta and Gone with the Wind; it’s mystery and ghosts: think Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, and of course it’s moonlight through the pines!! Come with me as I keep a journal of my happenings, my soaring hopes and my unexpected sobs. All y’all are invited to come along on the trail of the lonesome pine, as I mutate from West Virginia hills via four exciting years in the Maryland burbs of DC and Baltimore. Welcome aboard! Questions and opinions welcome!!

11/02/2018

I’m considering putting my 35 years of university English professorship available online as a mentor/collaborator/ghost writer while I finish my novel. What do you advise, friends?

06/02/2015

Oh, ps, my address, phone, and mindset have changed since February 1, 2015. so--allow me to do a bit of readjusting to this profile--and check me out again, maybe in a few years--who knows, maybe in just a few hours, if you, like me, are a hopeless optimist. Make that a hopeful optimist. Makes more sense, don't you think?

06/02/2015

Sometimes I just want to take pictures. They're worth a thousand words, and I rarely get photographer's block. Writing is a different story--so to speak. When did I open this page? 2012? And I'm still waiting for me to post books for sale. But now I'm realizing that what I really wanted was an excuse to post some of my writing! Cool. Got it. Now, more about me . . .

02/22/2013

Anybody want to contribute books for sale on my web page, or better, the half.com account where I actually have books for sale--unlike this page, until I finish doing this year's taxes, at least. Let me know if you have books to clear out of your house. I'll stop over and take them to sell on commission. Jim

02/22/2013

I buy books, I read books, but I'm too lazy to post my books for sale. Did I write lazy? I meant distracted by the novel I'm writing, and the dozen or so books I keep going as a smorgasbord of literary delight. Also have been skiing with Marji a few weeks ago, and made a trip to Huntington to watch an MU basketball game in which Andrew was playing trumpet for the pep band. Fun stuff. Drove up by myself to tour the Greenbank Observatory and stopped by Snowshoe and the Cass Scenic Railroad. Should be worth a repeat soon.

01/12/2013

Apologies to the millions who have viewed this page. My best efforts have gone into other endeavors, while BestBookie, noble enterprise that it remains, remains unenlightening because I've not taken the time and energy to list books for sale/trade/giveaway. Still a work in progress. Check later in January 2013. My best, Jim.