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Tuesday, January 31, 2023

My Wife's Dog and Other Stories

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Many years ago, after my father passed away, I received a sheaf of carbon copied typed stories which he had written in the 1950's after ...
Monday, December 19, 2022

Daniel's Blessing

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A New Christmas Poem  Here is a wrinkle on the Christmas message that you may not have yet tied together, the part played by the proph...
Saturday, September 10, 2022

Eric and the Wolves

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  Wolves Attack by Afanasij Sheloumoff with permission This wonderful old story was told to me when I was a small boy by my great aunt ...
Friday, January 28, 2022

Continuing the tradition - Burns Night

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  The Tam O'Shanter Restaurant in Los Angeles has been serving wonderful meals for their patrons for one hundred years. For the last for...
Saturday, December 18, 2021

Ngong the Giant

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 The best news this Christmas season is from my dear friend Jim Covell who has been working on the soundtrack for our latest collaboration ...
Monday, June 07, 2021

L.A. Blue - new poems

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Nothing to do with Covid, this new book of poems is all about Los Angeles as it was, and hopefully will be again.  Filled with little nuance...
Thursday, April 22, 2021

Paul Washer and Men Of The Word

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  Last night, April 21st, at Grace Community Church, 815 men sat under the instruction of our guest speaker, Paul Washer when he taught from...
Saturday, March 27, 2021

An Easter Poem - The triumphal Entry

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The Folded Palm from the book "When The Spirit Moves" John 12 ,“Fear not, daughter of Zion; behold, your King is coming sitting on...
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Friday, October 02, 2020

Out On A Limb: Building a Tree House

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 In 2003 a start was made finding a way build a tree house in the stone pine on the hill in our garden.  It took eleven months. It is hard t...
Wednesday, September 09, 2020

A Traditional American Thanksgiving Poem

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  It is with great joy that I write to tell you that the Thanksgiving poem have been illustrated by Sue Hooper-Lawrie and is now available i...
Tuesday, September 08, 2020

A Shell In My Pocket

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 People tell me stories, I like that!  Every now and then I am so struck by the tale that I have to write it down and take, you might even s...
Sunday, August 02, 2020

The Names of the Days

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 Sue Hooper Lawrie and I have been busy, and here is our new collaboration. Available on Amazon our book about how the names for the weekd...
Sunday, April 19, 2020

The Legend of The Giant Ngong

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At last this story which was started when we were camping with our children in Yosemite has been completed, and with the help of Sue Hoope...
Sunday, August 11, 2019

Making Professional Presentations

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If you want to make more interesting PowerPoint presentations take a look at the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0V49VxSflCo
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Sunday, June 10, 2018

New Christmas Poetry

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Of Christmas and the winter festivals it was Sir Walter Scott who famously wrote: 'Twas Christmas told the merriest tale; A Chr...
Saturday, June 09, 2018

An Editor's Corner

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For two years, from 2015 - 2017, I have had the privilege of serving as “editor” of  Explorer, the newsletter for the Los Angeles Dental ...
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Thursday, February 01, 2018

Upon Reflection now in print

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The selected poems has now gone to press.  It has taken twenty readers twenty months to get the project completed and we are pleased with th...
Monday, October 16, 2017

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My new book "Nearly Jewish" is out today on Amazon : I don’t know who said it, but you can go to the four corners of the ...
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Wednesday, October 04, 2017

The Last Post

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For two years and ten editions I have had the privilege to write the commenting editor's corner for the Los Angeles Dental Society new...
Wednesday, May 31, 2017

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Wedding Poem Do you recall my darling   before my hair turned grey, We each made a promise   to honor and obey. You with stepha...
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Neil McLeod
Born in Oxford and raised in Kenya, Doctor McLeod was educated at London University where he studied dentistry at Guy's Hospital, and after post graduate studies at the Herman Ostrow School of Dentistry at USC, he settled in Los Angeles. Doctor McLeod is a performing poet and author who has produced many volumes of poetry ten of which have been recorded with music by Jim Covell.
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