Why I Have This Site

The purpose of this site is to showcase a memoir I have written. The book is titled Screen Saver.

The genesis of the book is worth noting.

"On toward dawn late in December in 2007 I was in Paris and had been reading because I had awakened and couldn’t get back to sleep.  Every couple years during my times in Paris I read A Moveable Feast.  On this particular morning, as I was about to complete the book something that Hemingway said set off a chain reaction of thoughts and ideas that I had to write down.  Since I had taken my computer with me to Paris, I jumped out of bed, turned on the ThinkPad and hammered out a few paragraphs.  Then I got another glass of calvados, another book and went back to bed.

A year later, again in Paris, the thing had become 19 chapters of a memoir.  By the following May it had been finished at 25 chapters.  Since then I have put it through five revisions and have self published on lulu.com."

There is a link to featured excerpts and selected reader comments in the menu bar. Those excerpts will be changed and updated frequently.

But there's more to life than a book one has written. To that end there are a number of other links. Over time I expect to add more.

 

 

 

Who Am I?

As my domain name would seem to indicate my name is Noel McKeehan.  I am married, retired, pretty old and a Seattle resident. I am a product of the Roman Catholic primary and secondary education systems of Portland and Seattle, after which I escaped to the higher education system of Oregon where I got a degree in History.  I spent four years in the Air Force as a commissioned officer.  I spent nearly thirty as an IBM employee and manager. I go to France as often as possible for as long as possible.  Otherwise I go to Lopez Island.  When I do neither, and find myself trapped in my Seattle home office, I attempt to interpret the world through the prism of Adobe CS4

I have a presence on Facebook and Twitter and constantly wonder why. Also, I try to remain (or become?) relevant by blogging.

This Web site is new to me. I had a Web site for a number of years starting in 1995 when nobody had Web sites. To create that site I taught myself HTML. After stirring up vast dis-interest with that site for several years I got rid of it.

If this site draws any interest I might exhume some of my old site's HTML from from the grave and integrate it here for everyone's entertainment and merriment.

I hope this site has more success.

Here is a link if you want to contact me.

Email Noel

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