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“Greg Swann has insights into emotion on levels that really make you think. He can pluck that one annoying gray hair with pinpoint accuracy. He is a philosopher of sorts and he says and does what philosophers do. He shakes you to the bone, bumps your cup and lets you see what spills out. You see what you see and he sees what he sees. I’ll bet they are dramatically similar and extraordinarily different.” –Jeff PriceMy favorite job title is Poet. Why? No license, no union, no credentialism. If you can learn, you will. If you can't, you won't waste my time. I grow regardless.
I’m not like you. That’s why you should listen to me. I’m in an empathy of opposites with everyone: All they see are reasons to complain, when all I want to do is dance. I know why we are the way we are and how we can learn to do better with each other – making everything better.
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A 100% FREE collection of some of the best of the Ramblin’ Gamblin’ Willie stories. You will want to read all of my books, but here is a cost-free way to get started.Buy my books at Amazon.com
Dusty
An elegy of hope and love.
Kindle
Traindancing
Bedtime stories for your inner child from The Mall of Misfit Families.
Kindle
Las Vegas Redemption
Pastor Trey Coyle and the reincarnation of Sarno’s Ghost.
Kindle
Shyly’s delight
Work, play and love like a Labrador.
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Nine empathies
Apprehending love and malice.
Print | Kindle
Father’s Day
More Married. More Husband.
More Father. More Man.
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Loving Cathleen
A Love To Live Up To
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Sun City
Loved ones die. Life goes on.
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Losing Slowly
How Las Vegas lost its mojo – and how to get it back
Print | Kindle
Christmas at the speed of life...
Ramblin' Gamblin' Willie's Christmas stories
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The Unfallen
A love story
Print | KindleMy other writing isn't collected in one place, but here's a shopping list for finding the best of it:
- Greg Swann writes – fiction and early essays.
- PresenceOfMind.net – a weblog I maintained in the early years of the new millenium.
- BloodhoundBlog – a national real estate weblog I started and contribute to. Much of the content there will be real estate related, but everything I write is focused on the self, and this is best represented in the longer essays.
- SplendorQuest.com – a weblog devoted to celebrating the uniquely human life.
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Want to send someone a greeting card with some oomph? Send a Willie book, instead.
I wrote a ton in 2017, lots of everything. Among other works, I published four new Willie books. They’re short – because I leave out all the boring stuff – but they’re cheap – because I want them to be … Continue reading
The Willie stories
“Art is the stuff that sticks with you, art is the thing that won’t turn you loose.”Photo by: bilderheldWilliam F.X. O’Connell (aka Ramblin’ Gamblin’ Willie) is a pen name I adopted a long time ago as a way of making … Continue reading
My Thanksgiving gift – to me: Anastasia in the light and shadow as a bedtime storybook.
Changing the world, one bedtime story at a time. I built a printed-and-bound edition of the Ramblin’ Gamblin’ Willie story Anastasia in the light and shadow. That much is for me: It’s my favorite of the Willie stories, and it’s … Continue reading
What happens when itinerant raconteur Willie O’Connell takes off for an extended tour of Sin City? Everything you’d never expect!
“Las Vegas lives and dies on the fear of loss. Everything is sold that way. The best things in life are free, and the people who actually have a good time in Vegas – as opposed to accumulating more and … Continue reading
An everyday perfect love.
“If you’re his favorite skateboard, he’s a crystal vase to you, a thing to be treasured forever or shattered in an instant’s rage.”This story first appeared in Sun City, but it’s also collected in Loving Cathleen, a book about building a … Continue reading
For the 20th anniversary of Bubba’s big reveal: Monica’s Song.
“I never had sex with that woman, Miss Lewinsky.”A Ramblin’ Gamblin’ Willie story March 8, 1998 To be sung loud and fast, a sassy girl-group sound: VERSE: They say he’s a cruiser, a good-for-nothing user They tell me he’s a tar-pit … Continue reading