Ugly Moose AK: "THE “WISDOM OF THE DONUT HOLE”: Our first blog about our websites and podcasts

Our first blog about our websites and podcasts...both being developed with releases planned soon, available on many Podcast Platforms. Soon we'll Welcome you to Episode 1 of what we intend to be the first of many more Podcasts, digging into backdrops, characters and plots of more than a dozen books from Ron Walden: Author of True to Life Alaska Crime & Other Alaska Stories. I’m your host, Scott Walden and this is… THE “WISDOM OF THE DONUT HOLE”. Quite a name for Blog and Podcast efforts by a guy trying to get you to read his books! This guy Ron is essentially a Luddite that loves donuts, friends, coffee and amazing almost-true stories. Luddite is a real word…Google it. Pretty sure Ron’s picture is there…chiseled onto a stone tablet. In Ron’s life, Wisdom of the Donut Hole has meant a choice of dwelling on failure and sadness or pursuing success and happiness. Be aware of it all but always pay more attention to the important parts. Wish if you want but appreciate what you have. There was a little bakery in Soldotna, Alaska called “The Moose Is Loose”. A few retired State Public Safety “workers” met there most days around 9a.m. for coffee, pastries, talk of yesterdays and of course, politics. This group represented about $20 in bakery business in any given month. Less when you subtract the coffee they drank and the business they ran off. Considering the bakery could sell a thousand or more apple fritters per day during tourist season, this group was allowed in mainly because return tourists always looked for them there. Like sideshow attractions given to dispensing loud laughs and light insults, crowds loved to look at them in an amazed sort of way. One summer morning, four tourists, 80 to 90 years old, dropped in having heard of the Bakery’s amazing pastries and sought-after souvenirs. They wore “Georgia Tech” sweatshirts and sat one table away from the book characters. Most mornings, Ron would chat with tourists, answering questions about the area with help from his retired squad. He never failed to come up with new ways to break the ice. In this case, Ron simply said “Georgia Tech, huh?” They smiled, each one shook hands with Ron and proudly said yes, they loved that school. Ron then asked, “So, when do you think you’ll graduate?” Hear the full story and entire 1st Podcast episode detailing Ron's biography soon. Check out RonWalden.com for more info on his complete works of novels, and to see where you can meet him next.