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GIVE ME 5 MINUTES ..Hi. I am Dr. William Long. Welcome to my web site which now has more than 4400 scholarly and practical essays. Here are three essays on why I write. Here is advice on how to write a book. Here are three essays on why I love words. See below for my current essay posts to this site. Here is my resume in 1986, at age 34, if you were interested! AND I WILL GIVE YOU THE WORLDTo Receive Updates of My Essays, Enter Your Email Address: |
HERE ARE MY MOST RECENT BOOKS |
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EVERYONE IS ANGRY: HOMER'S ILIAD, BOOK I
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Available as of February 7, 2010! WORD WEALTH: 300 WORDS FOR PLEASURE AND PROFIT Brief description: Words are our verbal dress or fashion. Just as you wouldn't consider going out into the world without checking yourself in the mirror, so you shouldn't present yourself to the world verbally without awareness of good use of words, in writing and speaking. This book introduces and shows you how to use 300 powerful verbs, nouns and adjectives so that you will have confidence in presenting yourself in the world. For a "look inside," click here. The Amazon.com purchasing info is here. |
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Now Available (Jan. 3, 2010)! IT'S ALL THE BASICS: TEACHING AND LEARNING Description: It's All the Basics: Teaching and Learning for the 21st Century explores the technological moment in which teachers and learners find themselves today. Teachers are discouraged. Students are confused. Administrators are scared. Professors have increasingly become academic bureaucrats. Schools have lost the sense that their primary focus is on teaching and learning. Click here for a "look inside" It's All The Basics. On Amazon.com |
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My New Book is Now Available (Oct. 15, 2009)! WISDOM SEEKING: THIRTY DAYS WITH THE BOOK OF PROVERBSDescription: Wisdom Seeking explores the Book of Proverbs and the life of integrity, order and faithfulness. Although often seen as a book of pithy wise sayings, the Book of Proverbs in fact searches out the nuances, paradoxes and pitfalls of living in a complex world. Dr. Long examines this complexity through 30 lucid, stimulating and sometimes humorous daily meditations on the Book of Proverbs. Order the book here. Here are 3 essays. Click here for a "look inside" Wisdom Seeking.
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ABOUT WILLIAM R. LONG, M. Div., Ph. D., J. D.Dr. Long is an author, theological and legal scholar, educator, and business consultant living in the Pacific Northwest. His books or long essays cover six or more scholarly areas: religion (including Biblical studies), history, law, words, education and childhood disabilities, including autism. His 2001 book on the history of Oregon's death penalty, A Tortured History: The Story of Capital Punishment in Oregon won an award. To date he has written or edited 14 books and more than 4300 essays (equivalent of 65 books of 200 pages). Contact him at drbilllong@gmail.com. He aspires to be an American polymath. |
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CURRENT WRITING PROJECTSI continue to write essays. My Jan. 24 essay speaks about a "daily meal" of Chinese learning. One Jan. 20 essay uses a mnemonist method of "places" or "stories" to show how to memorize a Hebrew texts. Two Jan. 15 essays explore how much learning is "enough" for a day. My Jan 9 essay, on the word "grave" in Job 3:22, tells how one word made my day. A Jan. 8 essay explores the relationship of creativity and daydreaming through reflecting on Job 3:13-19. My 1/7/12 essay remembers the New York Giant great Andy Robustelli (1925-2011). One 1/5/12 essay discusses "The Soaring Ambition of Great Poets." A 1/3/12 essay describes humor and word play in Book I of Paradise Lost. My 12/20 essay on Paradise Lost focuses on Satan's words in I.619-34. A 12/15/11 essay deals with narcissism. One 12/7/11 essay describes the skills of a special friend; another is a rant on an unhelpful program note for an otherwise perfect evening of the Oregon Symphony in Salem. A 12/5/11 essay gives two examples of Paradise Lost T-shirts I would like to see. My 11/29/11 thoughts on the firing of University of Oregon President Richard Lariviere, are here. Three 10/15 essays describe in detail my recent 2 1/2 week trip to Ukraine. One 10/9 essay reflects on major themes from Paul's Epistle to the Romans--in an unconventional way. Another 10/9 essay describes some of my desires or goals for my seventh decade of life. A 9/12 essay speaks about some Chinese words that have made it into English. One 9/11 essay talks interprets the biblical story of Jephthah in a different way. Another 9/11 essay speaks of difficulties faced by very smart people. A 9/10 essay reviews one aspect of a recent exhibit called "Timeless Renaissance" at the Hallie Ford Museum of Art in Salem OR. One 8/16 essay describes a conversation I had with a Kansas genius. Another two tell of my "Knowledge Project," the thing that occupies most of my thinking these days. Two 8/13 essays describe what, to me, are the "four types" of people and how I fit into my classification. One 8/7 essay describes the Chinese terms for those who did best on the Imperial Examinations. Another 8/7 essay describes the ideal/comprehensive web site for the future. An 8/6 essay reflecting on the Chinese Imperial Exams is here. Two 8/5 essays reflect on some Chinese cheng yu or idioms. Two 8/3/11 essays use the example of my learning Chinese to reflect on the need of our educational system to develop individual learning programs for all. Two 7/28 essays tell the story of the American polymath Charlton T. Lewis (1834-1904) and how his and my life seem to be mirrors of each other in many ways. I am very interested in the ways that Internet technology should lead us to reconceptualize knowledge. Two 7/25-28 essays on Learning and two 7/25 essays on Knowledge Creation, using a murder story from the 17th century for illustration, are here and here. Three 7/24 essays reflect on the notion of forgiveness, using Mark 2:1-12 as a backdrop. Two 7/17 essays exposit the concept of servanthood in Acts 6 and Mark 10 in an unconventional way. My 7/15 essay describes the way I think, based on a hypothetical question posed me by my friend Dan. Cynthia Barton Rabe, an Oregon author and innovator, was killed by a drug-crazed driver on 6/25/11. This essay reviews her book, The Innovation Killer, as a sort of "thank-you" to her. A 6/26/11 review of the movie Inception is here. Two 6/12/11 essays describing my trip to Appomattox Court House, VA with my former student Jon Hagmaier, who runs a sucessful company in VA, are here. A 6/4/11 essay describes Moses Mosop's stunning two world-records at the "Pre-Prefontaine" classic in Eugene, OR on 6/3. Three essays on difficult but useful words, from 4/11/11, are here. Three 4/8 essays on the interesting and elusive word bosmina are here. Two 4/7 essays on difficult words, from "pitch-cap" to "gravigrade" are here. Three 4/3-4/4/11 essays deal with the rather obscure topic of Cicero's oration pro Caecina, a book written about it by Prof. Bruce Frier, and its role in understanding the development of western jurisprudence. Two 3/31/11 review essays, including about 20 mistakes, in the excellent book So You Think You Can Spell? are here. Two 3/27/11 essays on difficult words are here. Two 3/25 essays, entitled "Long-ings," on what I call the three stages of life, are here. Two 3/24/11 essays on difficult words from David Grambs and Ellen Levine's So You Think You Can Spell? are here. Two 2/24/11 essays describe important events in the life of Theodore Roosevelt in the mid-1880s. A 2/19 essay reflects on whether I did the right thing when a grocery clerk overcharged me. Three 2/15/11 essays are on the early history of the Applegate Trail (OR). My two 2/13/11 essays are theological: one discusses Nehemiah 3 and the other looks critically at my Evangelical heritage. Two 2/11/11 essays discuss my proposal for a "New NOW" (National Organization for Women). Two 2/10/11 essays tell the convoluted story of why there are two Augustana Colleges (SD and IL). My 2/9/11 personal essay describes my disability--inability to follow directions and understand most people when they try to communicate. A 2/7/11 essay on the value of memorization is here. A 1/29/11 essay reflects on four questions I would like to ask audiences of professional people. A 1/28/11 essay discusses the sad killing of a 15 year-old Oregon girl, Kaelin Glazier. My 1/24/11 essay is called "Remembering Jack LaLanne." Among my other most recent are "Christian" Securities Fraud? ; a review of Neil Young's Bridge School Benefit Concert on October 24; two essays on Bluegrass singer Ralph Stanley; two essays on successful aging; and two essays on clear thinking. On October 30, 2010 I began to upload my "difficult spelling words" page, which will ultimately consist of 2,000 difficult-to-spell words, with pronunciation and extensive definitions. Two 10/31 essays on the death penalty are here. Three 11/1 essays on knowledge amassment are here; a critical review of the movie Waiting for Superman is here. Four 11/6-9 essays on a new book The Doctor and the Diva are here. An 11/11 essay describes my visit to the first cheese-tasting room in the Willamette Valley. A humorous 11/14 essay recounts my conversation about immigration with a new friend, Joe. An 11/15 essay describes IPhone applications I would really like to see. An 11/16 essay discusses four signs of a healthy church. My 11/19 essay on the exposome, a fascinating new scientific concept, is here. An 11/20 essay on Danielle Steel and her 1997 book Malice is here. My 12/2 essay is on Wikileaks and its newest disclosure. A 12/3 essay on the future of the death penalty is here. Two 12/15 essays on the literary style of Alexandra Fuller in The Legend of Colton H. Bryant are here. A 12/19 essay on the mathematically-oriented art work of Reno artist Ben Hoffman is here. A 12/29 essay reflecting on the problem telling the story of the 1961 Great Rose Bowl Hoax is here. My 1/6/11 essay speaks of the keys to effective preaching in 2011. A 1/7/11 essay on the idea of re-traumatization is here. My 1/7/11 review of The King's Speech is here. A 1/8/11 essay gives a subversive reading of Luke 17:11-19. An essay re-assessing the painting of Caravaggio, especially his 1595 Cardsharps, is here. My 1/13/11 essay on narcissism is here. Reflections on the history of Maui, where I spent five days in January, are here. A 1/20/11 essay on advice to young people is here. |
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For Links to Bill's other books, click here. For Links to some of Bill's articles, click here. For a Video of Bill's CBS Evening News Interview on spelling and words, from June 2008, click here.
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