I am a huge fan of HD, as we used to call him around those chilly nighttime campfires outside his cabin next to Walden Pond. I have read him in the past and I re-read his works today, as they remain relevant. However, I have neither written nor edited any books about Thoreau. That was done by Richard J. Schneider, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus of English at Wartburg College in Waverly, IA. Prof. Schneider and I enjoy the same name. Many of the robots that run the book publishing world, list both my works of fiction and Prof. Schneider’s scholarly work on Thoreau on the same page. I have attempted to get the two of us pulled apart, but have you ever spent much time trying to talk to or reason with a robot? It is not pretty. Some have suggested that I change my byline, maybe to Richard Schneider or Dick Schneider. Well, since I began writing for UPI in 1969, my byline has been Richard J Schneider, and I ain’t about to alter it to compensate for the inadequacies of Interweb robots. So the world will just have to sort it out on its own. –RJS