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Greetings from San Diego. I was lucky enough this month to be interviewed for two podcasts and to contribute to another author’s blog. But something else exciting is coming up. I and three other authors are trying something I’ve never done before. We’re doing an event at the Lightning Brewery. See more about it below. […]
The Wall Street Journal recently profiled a human resources executive, a sound engineer, an academic, and a psychologist who moved to Canada because of U.S. politics. Even Timothy Snyder, the famous Yale historian who wrote On Tyranny, escaped to Toronto. My wife and I moved there from Chicago for different reasons in 1989. She was […]
Hello from San Diego. It’s hard to believe summer is winding to an end. In this issue you have a chance for a free book and to get a free primer on how to tell a story. See details in the newsletter below. Thanks for reading Carl Vonderau’s Newsletter! Subscribe for free to receive new […]
Hello from San Diego. My wife has had her new knee for seven weeks now. This is a long recovery, but she’s getting around without a walker or cane. It will be awhile before she can get back to yoga. I’m trying to finish a new book, as well as a primer for people in […]
No Kings Day Hello from San Diego. These are the summer slow months, and I will mostly be staying home. My wife just had a knee replacement so we are concentrating on her recovery. I’m also working on another book, as well as a primer for people in companies and nonprofits on how to tell […]
What’s it like to live in a place where people are fighting over the language that they can speak? It’s not easy. And in some ways it’s harder than being plopped into somewhere where people only speak one local language. My family went through this when we lived in Montreal for fifteen years. Quebec is […]
It has been many years since I saw this great movie directed by Costa-Gavras and starring Jack Lemmon and Sissy Spacek. It was made in 1982 and is based on a book portrayal of a real-life incident. The book is The Execution of Charles Horman: An American Sacrifice. Charles disappeared in Chile in 1973 shortly […]
Greetings from San Diego You Thought Bernie Madoff Was Audacious When Bernie Madoff was arrested, most thought he was the most audacious Ponzi-scheme fraudster in U.S. history. But just nine days earlier another Ponzi fraudster was arrested. I thought this man was even more brazen. I first learned about him in a Vanity Fair […]
Greetings from San Diego You Thought Bernie Madoff Was Audacious When Bernie Madoff was arrested, most thought he was the most audacious Ponzi-scheme fraudster in U.S. history. But just nine days earlier another Ponzi fraudster was arrested. I thought this man was even more brazen. I first learned about him in a Vanity Fair article […]