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Where Have I Been Lately?

No where really. 
However the demands of work, health, daughter and time have conspired to give me little time to write... although I am always writing in my head.  School's out in a few weeks.  I'll have more time then.

The Jeff Howe Problem

The Internet is apparently full of bogus Jeff Howes - a fact that another Jeff Howe has already pointed out:  there's the contributing editor of Wired Magazine, a commentator on the New England Sports Nework, a drummer in Texas, a poet and writer in Maine, a professional golfer in Canada and a writer for the Village Voice, amoungst others.  And then there's even the Right Honourable Baron Lord Geoffrey Howe of Aberavon, former Cabinet Minister to Prime Minister Margarett Thatcher of England.  Please follow the links above if you are seeking these gentlemen.  This is a Jeff Howe public service.

That's why  I decided to be  Jeff "L." Howe. 

I'm the  Jeff Howe of Walled Lake, Michigan State, Marin County, Milwaukee, Vermont, Cape Cod and Pennsylvania - the writer, storyteller, harmonica player, bonsai enthusiast and public geologist.  I'm Hyla's dad, Tim's (Rita, Lisa and Jill's) brother and the eldest son of Poop and Slug.  If that's who you're looking for, then that's the Jeff Howe you've found.

This site is brand new as of January, 2012.   It's a central hub for my various projects and a place where people can reliably find me.  It's meant to be humorous, informative  and interesting... if not a bit irreverent.  (WTF?!)  If I ever get my CD and the Charlotte Whale book finished, you can buy them here too.

So I hope you'll scroll across the bar up above the photo of two old guys at a ball game in Oakland in 1982, or click on the links to your right.   Linger a bit and check it all out.   Leave a comment to let me know you've been by. 

Start with a tune...

What's New

May 20 - Blog - Robert Plant, Eric Claptan and Elvis

What You'll Find Here

BLOG- Cross-posted with the blog that I've been posting on Open Salon for three years, it is a running commentary on what I find interesting, important, humorous and ironic about life.

STORIES - The best of published and unpublished essays and short stories.

HARMONICA - I've been an avid player since 1972.  This is a collection of the past, present and future of my playing.  It includes links to live recordings.

GRAPHICS - A slide show featuring the best of assorted pencil, pen and ink, watercolor, lithographs and computer graphics over the past 40 years.

BONSAI - My articles on using Metasequoia (Dawn redwood) trees as bonsai have traveled around the world.  I know this because I get email on them everyday.  

PARKINSON'S  - I have been diagnosed with the early symptoms of Parkinson's.  I am dedicated to live-blog it to the very end.

EINSTEIN'S HAMMOCK - A series of not-too-scholarly articles on science, geology and the Universe.

CHARLOTTE WHALE -  A fossil whale discoverd in Vermont in 1849.  This is the year I finally get this thing published.  Promise.

W T F ? - The name says it all...

CONTACT QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS

MORE... -  Searching for the Old Road, the Geology of Special Places, The Physics of Old Men, Sneeze Weasels, Alfred Dinklemeyer Jr. ...  its all here.  Where else would it be?

Jeff

(As of 2/29/12)