John’s Substack
John OughtonReflections, suggestions & discoveries from a long life of writing, editing, and reviewing; posts should interest both writers (published and aspiring) and those rare beasts, people who simply love reading, and thinking about what they read.
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Have You Heard of...?
OK, a question from the Middle Eastern version of Trivial Pursuit: who was the red-haired English adventurer who spoke six or seven languages; wrote several books; was a mountaineer and equestrian; helped launch the Baghdad Archaeological M...
Memories of Iraq
Let’s wind the calendar back to 1959. I was ten years old, the youngest of five Oughton children in Guelph, Ontario, bored by school (I skipped Grade 5 around then), and enjoying reading comics, Tom Swift and Hardy Boys books, and Treasure ...
A Real Nebula, and a Partly-real Poem
“THE FATE OF OUR STARS: By comparing the first photo of the Crab Nebula, taken 25 years ago (left) with the latest photo, taken in 2024, astronomers can see how the nebula has changed over time. It appears that the edges have changed more t...
Alphabets and Keyboards
Ever wonder where our alphabet — those five vowels, 20 consonants, and bi-friendly Ys — came from, and how they came to be distributed on a contemporary keyboard?
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Retired college professor, poet (six books),novelist, photographer, guitar player.
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