About
Joseph Robert Lewis [Web site]
AKA: The Average Joe
I’m just a man with a dream…and an old Toyota, a new refrigerator, bad eyes, good teeth, a degree in English literature, a couple of cats…and a tendency to ramble…a bit.
I edit and write for a living, but I also write for fun, and I hope to one day write for a living so I can stop editing and writing for a living. Got that?
Don’t be shy about saying what’s really on your mind. I can always edit your comments to say, “Joe is awesome.”
The Title:
God only exhibits his thunder and lightning at intervals, and so they always command attention. These are God’s adjectives. You thunder and lightning too much; the reader ceases to get under the bed, by and by.
- Mark Twain, letter to Orion Clemens, 23 March 1878
Some of my work:
I have edited, researched, illustrated, designed, published, distributed, and/or promoted the following books:
- Alberts, David, and Richard Hayes. Campaigns of Experimentation. Washington: CCRP, 2005. (230 pages)
- Alberts, David, and Richard Hayes. Planning: Complex Endeavors. Washington: CCRP, 2007. (260 pages)
- Alberts, David, and Richard Hayes. Power to the Edge. Washington: CCRP, 2003. (260 pages)
- Alberts, David, and Richard Hayes. Understanding Command and Control. Washington: CCRP, 2006. (230 pages)
- Alberts, David, Richard Hayes, Daniel Maxwell, John Kirzl, and Dennis Leedom. Code of Best Practice for Experimentation. Washington: CCRP, 2002. (430 pages)
- Alberts, David. Information Age Transformation. Washington: CCRP, 2002. (140 pages)
- Atkinson, Simon Reay, and James Moffat. The Agile Organization. Washington: CCRP, 2005. (220 pages)
- Fisch, Ann. Pot Spring. Baltimore: Gateway Press, 2008. (180 pages)
- Gat, Azar. Victorious and Vulnerable: Why Democracy Won in the 20th Century and How It Is Still Imperiled. Washington: Hoover Institution, 2009. (250 pages)
- Kass, Richard. The Logic of Warfighting Experiments. Washington: CCRP, 2006. (200 pages)
- Kling, Arnold. Unchecked and Unbalanced: How the Discrepancy Between Knowledge and Power Caused the Financial Crisis and Threatens Democracy. Washington: Hoover Institution, 2009. (200 pages)
- Mai, Ruth Hunt. The Road Unplanned. Baltimore: Gateway Press, 2009. (150 pages)
- McFaul, Michael. Advancing Democracy Abroad: Why We Should and How We Can. Washington: Hoover Institution. 2009. (300 pages)
- Moffat, James. Complexity Theory and Network Centric Warfare. Washington: CCRP, 2003. (170 pages)
- NATO SAS. Code of Best Practice for C2 Assessment. Washington: CCRP, 2002. (300 pages)
- Potts, David. The Big Issue. Washington: CCRP, 2002. (330 pages)
- Reeves, Charles B. A Good Run. Baltimore: Gateway Press, 2008. (200 pages)
- Smith, Edward. Complexity, Networking, and Effects Based Approaches to Operations. Washington: CCRP, 2006. (340 pages)
- Smith, Edward. Effects Based Operations. Washington: CCRP, 2003. (560 pages)
- Wentz, Larry. Lessons from Kosovo. Washington: CCRP, 2002. (760 pages)
You can read many of these books online. I don’t imagine you’ll actually want to, but you can.
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damyantig | August 7, 2008 at 9:07 pm
I love your description of yourself
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amandzing | August 19, 2008 at 10:20 am
As long as you’re enjoying yourself
It is certainly a different approach, and well done for a different look at blogging
Most of us just do it, without too mch analysis, and perhaps a little self insight would be a good thing.
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shoreacres | August 21, 2008 at 12:18 am
I saw your question over at the forums about people who “write about writing”. I do, and have a couple of posts which I’m rather fond of over at my place. One is called, “Reading, Writing and Thinking”, and the other, “Longer Sentences, Bigger Words.” There’s also “Artists: ReWriting the Book of Rules”, which has the great good fortune to have a bit of Reggae in it!
Nice blog you have here. When I’m not so tired I’ll be back to look at the climate change posts.
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Janice (Lewis) Clark | November 13, 2008 at 6:28 pm
Hi Joseph,
I picked up your story from Critters, mostly because you share my great-grandfather’s name (first and last anyway) and I though we could be cousins–or not. Lewis is a common name. Anyway, the story looks interesting so I’ll probably run through it this evening.
You mentioned your blog at the end of the Critters selection, but didn’t include the address. I checked for a Critters bio, but nothing there. So I was curious, and had to track you down. Isn’t Google wonderful? Nice web site by the way.
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Steph | March 20, 2009 at 3:00 pm
Joe is awesome.
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Steph | March 20, 2009 at 3:00 pm
Joe is double awesome.
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Steph | March 20, 2009 at 3:02 pm
Joe is triple awesome.
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Sharon (thesunlitdesk) | May 27, 2009 at 9:19 pm
Hi Joe,
Love your blog. I’ll be back
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Joseph Lewis | May 27, 2009 at 11:01 pm
Thanks, Sharon
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Joseph | November 26, 2009 at 6:55 pm
I think it was a mistake to quote this passage out of context. This is the first time I’ve looked at this blog or the blog of Janet Reid and when I first read that passage it jarred on me. “… she wore the pearls and a tab collar peeped…” is a very clumsy construction that is nevertheless very common in the work of inexperienced writers. But if you go to the article where this passage belongs and read it there, it works perfectly.
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Joseph Lewis | November 26, 2009 at 9:50 pm
Well, my post was simply in response to Ms Reid’s post, so I had no interest in the context of the passage. I would assume from that opening line that the preceding paragraph referenced “the” pearls to make it fit. However, my criticism of the complete paragraph stands. I find it awkward, vague, and overwritten.