Grandparents and Softball-Girls Love Softball
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Westerville resident Sam Kegley's first work of fiction is titled Grandparents and Softball .
Love for softball inspires Westerville man's family fiction
* Sam Kegley discovered his book not only appeals to young softball players, but to the parents and grandparents of those players.
By AARON SCHWARZ
Published: Monday, August 3, 2009 9:20 AM EDT
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Westerville resident Sam Kegley, 76, always has had a passion for softball. Now, he's turned that passion into a book.
Kegley's book, Grandparents and Softball, is a story about a set of grandparents, Andy and Princess, who follow their granddaughter, Audrey, throughout her softball career, starting when she is a young girl all the way to her 20s, when she competes in the Olympics as part of Team USA.
Grandparents and Softball, Kegley's first attempt at fiction, was born in large part from his own experiences after being involved in softball for much of his life.
"I've played softball, my kids played softball and now my granddaughters play softball. Girls are completely taking over the sport," Kegley said.
As the game of softball has evolved throughout the years, so have the people playing it.
"The enthusiasm of little girls when they play softball is something else. They play like boys out there," Kegley said.
When he started writing the book, Kegley originally intended for his audience to be children who are playing softball.
One of the editors of the book, an Ohio State softball alumna, showed Kegley his audience was much broader.
Since taking the advice of the collegiate player, Kegley realized his book is not only enjoyable for kids playing softball, but also for the parents and grandparents of those kids.
Kegley's exuberance for softball is rarely rivaled.
"I love softball. Most people who are associated with softball do. Everybody counts and the girls do such a good job. It's a team game and being part of a team really helps the self-esteem of these little girls." Kegley said.
Plans for another book already are in the works; however, Kegley doesn't yet know what the topic will be.
Kegley and his wife Jeanette have lived in Westerville for 48 years.
Grandparents and Softball is available for purchase at the Web site authorhouse.com or by calling 888-280-7715.
Thursday, August 6, 2009
George Orwell's 1984
This book was a futuristic unthinkable when I was a junior at Portsmouth High School. Winston and Julia are caught in an anti-love crime by the thought police and questioned separately. I thought then that it could never happen in the USA, but here it is happening 60 years after the June 1949 publishing for George Orwell.
It was required reading then by our bright teachers and it should be today unless it becomes part of a burning pile soon. You can go to Google and put in Orwell 1984. I like the current Wikipedia link.
Just this much tells something about Orwell:
Popular misconceptions
In a letter to Francis A. Henson of the United Automobile Workers, dated 16 June 1949 (seven months before he died), excerpts from which were reproduced in Life (25 July 1949) and The New York Times Book Review (31 July 1949), Orwell stated the following:
"My recent novel [Nineteen Eighty-Four] is NOT intended as an attack on Socialism or on the British Labour Party (of which I am a supporter) but as a show-up of the perversions ... which have already been partly realized in Communism and Fascism. ...The scene of the book is laid in Britain in order to emphasize that the English-speaking races are not innately better than anyone else and that totalitarianism, if not fought against, could triumph anywhere."
—Collected Essays[12]
In his 1946 essay, "Why I Write", Orwell described himself as a Democratic Socialist, though said political agenda carried with it far different implications than would be expected today.[13]
[edit] Copyright status
Nineteen Eighty-Four will not enter the public domain in the United States until 2044 and in the European Union until 2020, although it is public domain in countries such as Canada, Russia, and Australia.
Sam Kegley
It was required reading then by our bright teachers and it should be today unless it becomes part of a burning pile soon. You can go to Google and put in Orwell 1984. I like the current Wikipedia link.
Just this much tells something about Orwell:
Popular misconceptions
In a letter to Francis A. Henson of the United Automobile Workers, dated 16 June 1949 (seven months before he died), excerpts from which were reproduced in Life (25 July 1949) and The New York Times Book Review (31 July 1949), Orwell stated the following:
"My recent novel [Nineteen Eighty-Four] is NOT intended as an attack on Socialism or on the British Labour Party (of which I am a supporter) but as a show-up of the perversions ... which have already been partly realized in Communism and Fascism. ...The scene of the book is laid in Britain in order to emphasize that the English-speaking races are not innately better than anyone else and that totalitarianism, if not fought against, could triumph anywhere."
—Collected Essays[12]
In his 1946 essay, "Why I Write", Orwell described himself as a Democratic Socialist, though said political agenda carried with it far different implications than would be expected today.[13]
[edit] Copyright status
Nineteen Eighty-Four will not enter the public domain in the United States until 2044 and in the European Union until 2020, although it is public domain in countries such as Canada, Russia, and Australia.
Sam Kegley
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