Most kids (at least in USA) know that Christopher Columbus set sail from Spain in three small ships and bumped into America (actually, the Bahamas) in 1492. Many may not know that he was way off track, couldn’t be much further in fact. He was aiming at the “spice islands” on the Malabar west coast […]
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This is the last of the 3 books in which Jim takes Fred, Perdy, Jack and the gang exploring famous sights in USA. They travel the west coast, starting in Hollywood, where Fred gets a star, fly under the Golden Gate bridge, get locked up (temporarily) in Alcatraz, marvel at Yosemite, ski at Tahoe, visit
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Just heard an interview with Fred Bryant on PBS. He is the author of “Savoring”, a treatise on enjoying the moment, explaning how important it is to slow down in this fast world. It reminded me of something I wrote a long time ago when contemplating a big change in my life. Here with apologies
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Meet Cristina Young, the “designer” of my books about Fred the snake and his friends. She weaves my words and Bonnie’s illustrations into the printed books. I hadn’t realised the importance of the designer until we started working together. We just finished the 9th book about Fred’s adventures which will be on sale very soon.
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Fred was tickled to get publicity in the local islands SIP quarterly magazine. SIP is Sullivans Island, Isle of Palms and Dewees https://www.luckydognews.com/sip-magazine/when-peter-the-doctor-invented-a-medical-marvel-and-dreamt-u/
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I have been rather quiet for a few months while working on some important changes to my website(s). We have revamped www.petercottontales.com . Chad at Tidewater Creative Media has done a nice job, despite my help. Hope you like it. I had another site www.drpetercotton.com for my medical activities and my blog about life in
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I am currently working on merging this website content into my other site www.petercottontales.com Back soon hopefully
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Next day, they all have gone, to a park called Yellowstone
to see Old Faithful Geyser. Careful, you’d be wiser
to stand back and watch it squirt, fountains and some lumps of dirt.
Then Jack said “WOW, look at that enormous cow”.
Jim replied, “No, my son, what you’re seeing is a bison.
They used to roam the plains in herds, big flocks of them like birds,
until the hunters came, and killed so many, what a shame.
FIVE stars for Fred book #8! Read More »
Wow, Fred has been busy recently! In January he published his 8th book, exploring the Central USA with his friends. Starting in Texas, they traveled to Mount Rushmore, Yellowstone, Durago (for gold panning), the awesome Canyons, the Apache nation, Tucson desert musesum and ending in Vegas, where he married Bernadette! He is currently working with
My recent ramble about friends “down under” reflected on my good fortune to have past trainees who have been kind enough to entertain us in Australia. A related medical connection took us also to New Zealand, where we were hosted by Linda Robert. We met “Bobbie” many years ago as the owner of OBEX, a
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