My new book, Chax: A Dolphin’s Song

Chax-Dolphins-Song-Tom-Yancey-ebook/dp/B01BX8S4CI?ie=UTF8&keywords=Chax&qid=1465243646&ref_=sr_1_2&sr=8-2 This is my newest book. It’s the second or third or fourth book I’ve written, depending on whether you count only published books that are still in print. If that’s the case, it’s the second. It’s categorized on Amazon as a fictional sea story, and so it is. It’s unusual, however, in that about a third of it is told

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Welcome!

Hi! Welcome to my website. Here you can sample some of my writing, published and unpublished. My friend David Burton built the site, but it was too complicated for a mere mortal like me. Another friend, Steven Ayers, simplified it. Steven has simplified it enough now that I can learn to run it. Thanks Guys. Stay tuned. The site has a

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Election Day and Halloween

Today is election day, 2014, a “mid-term” election, which means the presidency is not on the ballot. Typically the turnout is low in mid-term elections, and this one seems to be low here in Tennessee, though there seem to be key races for the Senate in Kentucky, North Carolina and Iowa, perhaps others. At one time I cared more about

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I like the Fourth of July

When I was a boy the annual Fourth of July parade in my hometown started almost in our back yard. It really started the night before, when what seemed like a band of gypsies and horses camped out on the practice field of the high school across the street. They built fires, cooked out, laughed and played music. Live, acoustic

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