A Writer’s Diary Entries From Mid-August, 2001 | Richard Grayson

A Writer’s Diary Entries From Mid-August, 2001 | Richard Grayson

A Writer’s Diary Entries From Early August, 2001 | Richard Grayson

A Writer’s Diary Entries From Early August, 2001 | Richard Grayson

"MEMORIAL DAY DIARY: 1970-2010" by Richard Grayson now available at Amazon Kindle Store

Richard Grayson's MEMORIAL DAY DIARY: 1970-2010 is now available at Amazon's Kindle Store for 99¢ from its publisher, Art Pants Company.

Here is the promo material for the 127-page $7.99 paperback edition from Superstition Mountain Press:

How does a person change over forty years? Suppose someone kept a diary every day starting when he was 18 through his late fifties? Richard Grayson, author of numerous books of short fiction, compiled such a record of his life: thoughts, actions, events, mundane details and reactions to the world around him for every Memorial Day -- the last Monday in May -- from 1969 to 2010. Here are the results.

Richard Grayson letter in The New York Times: "California's Freeway to Learning"

Richard Grayson has a letter in the New York Times today (October 1, 2000), "California's Freeway to Learning":

To the Editor:

Re "California Makes College an Entitlement," by Abigail Thernstrom (Op-Ed, Sept. 26):

If Ms. Thernstrom wishes to raise academic standards, she is not helping with her comment that ''a B is hardly a bang-up grade.''

When I was an undergraduate in the 1970's, I was quite happy with a B, which I felt reflected solid achievement if not excellence. But as a college instructor, I have found that students have come to see the once-honorable B as a badge of shame. Just today, a composition student came up to me after class to complain that the B-plus I'd given her on a competent but not outstanding essay was the lowest grade she'd ever received. Ms. Thernstrom's comments only contribute to the mind-set that good, solid work always merits an A.

RICHARD GRAYSON
Mesa, Ariz., Sept. 26, 2000

The writer teaches English at Arizona State University.

Richard Grayson letter in The New York Times: "Ban Cars, Not Carts, On New York Streets"

Richard Grayson has a letter in the New York Times today (June 11, 1998), "Ban Cars, Not Carts, On New York Streets":


To the Editor:

Fred I. Kent 3d and Andrew G. Schwartz (Op-Ed, June 6) argue that street vendors in New York should be encouraged because the decline of street-level coffee shops, bars and cafeterias has made a quick, cheap lunch hard to find in parts of Manhattan. But these establishments have largely been replaced by fast-food restaurants like McDonald's, Burger King, Wendy's and Pizza Hut, which have locations all over Manhattan. Moreover, many delis and grocery stores feature takeout salad bars and sandwiches.

Street vendors may be an asset to New York, but they are hardly the only purveyors of quick, cheap lunches.

RICHARD GRAYSON
Mesa, Ariz., June 6, 1998