Fredy Argir

My name is Fredy Argir. I grew up in Hibbing, Minnesota and I live in Austin, Texas. Lonnie and I were friends for 50 years.

I’m here today to say a few words about Lonnie from a friend’s perspective. But…

Nuggets from the News is published pretty much any time we feel like it, which is to say: not often. But when we do manage to pull a few together, we try to be Johnny on the proverbial Spot.

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Most of the world calls it “American football” and there’s no question that it has been our national sport for the best part of the last century and all of this one—so far. After all, there are fourteen thousand teams…

Elmore Leonard died last year at the age of 70. He was a prolific author of crime fiction and many of his novels became American film classics; he was, in some ways, a writer’s writer. As he became the elder…

"The art of life consists in making correct decisions on insufficient evidence." —Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes

I. The Barbara Paciotti Story

On Friday, June 13, 1969, Barbara Jean Paciotti, a petite, twenty-year-old secretary at a Minneapolis investment firm, drove home…

Some lens makers call them macro while others refer to the same type of lenses as micro. Either way, what they mean is extreme close-up. It takes a macro or micro camera lens (let’s go with macro for…

People often ask me what I'm reading. Because I'm an author, I assume they expect me to be immersed in some massive volume of academic import. The truth is I don't hang out with anyone who does that and my…

When I saw that headline over an editorial in a recent edition of the Wall Street Journal, I thought it was a joke. But Gordy Crovitz was apparently quite serious when he wrote, "Engaging with a novel—whether through print…

I've had four websites on the World Wide Web spanning the past twenty-five years.  This is the fifth.  Everything has come a long way in a short time. On the other hand, the vast majority of users still think the…