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. CS5 is now in full force; I just don't know if I have another conversion in me. There will be a CS6, so maybe I'll just wait.

I have a presence on Facebook and Twitter and constantly wonder why. Also, I try to remain (or become?) relevant by blogging from Paris. For my more historical (sometimes hysterical) blog you could also go to my Screen Saver blog.

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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