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Alan D Busch
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The distinguished historian of American history, William Appleman Williams, defined writing as the art of applying the seat of your pants to the seat of your chair and remaining there until you have something written down.
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Alan D. Busch is an independent writer in Skokie, Illinois whose newest publication, Between 10 and 5 With Dad, Keeping The Fifth Commandment is available for purchase at Amazon.com or Kindle.com or by contacting the author directly. Cost for one copy is $14.95 plus four dollars USPS first class shipping anywhere within the United States, excluding Alaska, Hawaii and U.S. territories.
My work is republished across the net and in various print media: Bereavement Publications/Living With Loss,The Chicago JUF News Magazine, Poetworks.com, Aish.com, Skyline Productions, Poetica Magazine, the Jewish Press of New York, the Orthodox Union (ou.org) Horizons Magazine of Targum Press and The Sun magazine.
Two of my essays appear in an anthology of new Jewish writers, Everyone's Got A Story, edited by Ruchama King Feuerman whose endorsement can be found on the back of my new book, Between 10 and 5 With Dad, Keeping The Fifth Comnmandment.
Alan can be reached at alandbusch@aol.com or at alandbusch@gmail.com
Birth Place: Chicago, IL USA
Accomplishments: My most important achievements are my children.
Secondarily, please see my list of publications.
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Books

| | Between 10 and 5 With Dad by Alan D Busch An inspirational memoir targeting the baby boomer generation. Very relatable. Timeless lessons throughout. This book is subtitled Keeping the Fifth Commandment (honoring thy mother and father) not a sunday schoolish book but one that make you think, smile lots and even lose a tear or two....
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| Revised Chapter 3 of Between Fathers and Sons by Alan D Busch Of the four chapters I posted about two weeks ago, the preface, ch.1, 2, 3, 7 chapter 3 received the most hits at 250. Writing is mostly rewriting, editing, tedious stuff after a while, but hopefully it pays off when the language over which the writer labors for endless hours begins to sing. :)...
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| Revised Preface of My Second Book by Alan D Busch I've completed a preliminary draft of my memoir about my late father Dr. Albert I. Busch, DDS, Brigadier General, Retired, United States Army. I will post individual chapters one at a time. I ask one favor. Take the time to type your feedback. Please do not hesitate to let me know that you do NOT like something. Suggestions are welcomed. Sit back, read, respond, enjoy. L'Chaim...
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Short Stories
 You May Be Seated by Alan D Busch a chapter in my manuscript about the last weeks of my father's life ......
Stories of Shul Life: The Essence of Sukkot by Alan D Busch It's never too late to learn that what really matters is not the shine but the substance ......
In The Draft of God's Exhalation by Alan D Busch Reflections in The Mirror of Purim...
Is It Still Okay If Your Father Cries? TO BE PUBLISHED BY THE JEWISH PRESS by Alan D Busch This is the version of "Is It Still Okay If Your Father Cries? that will appear in the November 13, 2009 edition of The Jewish Press, America's largest Independent Jewish Weekly Newspaper....
Sequel by Alan D Busch
This story is the sequel to one I posted (by a link to www.authorsden.com) on Facebook several hours ago under the title of "Shabbos Mincha with Reb Isser". It would be advisable have read ...
Shabbos Mincha with Reb Isser (Revised for publication submission) by Alan D Busch Please read this story in conjunction with my other story about Reb Isser, Tefilin and Teacher (2nd revision accepted for publication)....
The Legacy of a Good Teacher by Alan D Busch A good teacher affects eternity ...
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Cruising Route 66 With Dad (a major revision ) by Alan D Busch a chapter from coming book Betweem Fathers and Sons...
These Lights We Kindle, revision 5 for submission by Alan D Busch revised for submission...
These Lights We Kindle, Revision 4 by Alan D Busch revision 4 ...
These Lights We Kindle, revision 3 by Alan D Busch revision three of These Lights We Kindle (for submission)...
These Lights We Kindle, revision 2 by Alan D Busch revision #2...
These Lights We Kindle (revised) by Alan D Busch for submission...
Cruising Route 66 With Dad, Revision #2 by Alan D Busch this revision reflects some of the suggestions offered by my writers' group ......
Cruising Route 66 With Dad-Revision 1 by Alan D Busch please read and comment on this improvement of the original...
Cruising Route 66 With Dad by Alan D Busch This a newly revised and expanded chapter 1 of my manuscript in progress about my father's last weeks of life and the time we spent together....
Proposed preface to Alan's 2nd Book ... by Alan D Busch Comments welcome...
IS IT STILL OKAY IF YOU FATHER CRIES (SUBMITTED FOR PUBLICATION) by Alan D Busch Thanks you to the hundreds of readers who have been patiently reading and putting up with the several revisions of this piece. what follows is the draft i sent in for publication please if you would g...
Is It Okay If Your Father Cries (Revised Final Revision) by Alan D Busch writing axion ... if you think it's finished, it probably is not....
Is It Still Okay If Your Father Cries (newly edited for submission) by Alan D Busch revised for submission...
My Brother Does Not Look Like My Father by Alan D Busch a chapter from my manuscript about the last several months of my father's life....
Darkness Can Enlighten (Revision 2) by Alan D Busch The piece will be newly entitled "Our Future Began In Our Past"....
Darkness Can (And Does) Enlighten (revised for submission) by Alan D Busch Our future already began in our past ......
A Revision of Losing A Grandson (submitted for publication) by Alan D Busch Please read this revision of "Losing A Grandson", a chapter of the book I'm presently writing about my late father. I hope to submit this revision for publication...
Fundamentals of Father and Son (Revised Preface to Manuscript) by Alan D Busch Please read this revision of my preface for my second book I'm writing to honor my father who passed away in October of 2008....
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Poetry
 Significant Revision of A Father Loses A Daughter by Alan D Busch A further revision of "A Father Loses A Daughter" ... rededicated to Noelle, beloved daughter of my friend Micky Peluso, whose book And The Whipoorwill Sang, I recommend for all readers....
yahrzeit by Alan D Busch poetry of grief within a Jewish holy place...
Martin ... my brother I love but never knew by Alan D Busch written for a friend whose brother predeceased him but whom he loves and misses nonetheless...
At Heaven's Gate by Alan D Busch This is part of a body of new material I hope to publish in a reissue of my first book Snapshots In Memory of Ben...
A Revision of A Father Loses A Daughter by Alan D Busch a revision of 'A Father Loses A Daughter" ...rededicated to Noelle, beloved daughter of my friend, author Micky Peluso, And The Whipoorwill Sang...
Loss and Gain by Alan D Busch poetry for bereaved parents...
Three Jewish Love Poems by Alan D Busch Revisions of three Jewish poems. italicized words are defined after the last line of the poem in which they appear...
Fingers, A Poem for Kimberly (revision 5) by Alan D Busch I think this will be the final pre-submission revision ... but one never knows....
Loss and Gain by Alan D Busch My friend mourns the recent sudden death of his 21-year old daughter ...
I dedicate the following verses to Noelle,of blessed memory, beloved daughter of my friend and author Micki Peluso who...
Martin by Alan D Busch A brother laments his brother whom he never knew ......
Fingers (substantially revised #4) by Alan D Busch my wife suggested i rewrite it in simpler language .......
Fingers (revision #3) by Alan D Busch No poem as beautiful as her fingers,...
Zac's Lilies by Alan D Busch Perhaps my favorite memory of Zac growing up ......
While Vigilance Slept (revision of Dignity Restored) by Alan D Busch A crime neither forgiven nor forgotten ... (still under construction)...
Shacharis Musings (revised and published) by Alan D Busch Revised version of "Shacharis Musings" as it appears in the summer 2009 edition of Poetica Magazine, Reflections of Jewish Thought (www.poeticamag.com)...
Shacharis Musings by Alan D Busch poetry of the Jewish study/prayer room called the "Beis Medrash" ......
Revision of The First To Be by Alan D Busch There is something special about writing in the wee hours ... do you know what I mean? Please let me know if you like it. You might read it in conjunction with the original found also in my poetry sec...
Pleasantness and Praise by Alan D Busch A wedding prayer for a young couple ... the groom's name Noam means "pleasantness" and the bride's name Tehilla means "praise"....
May He A Teacher Become by Alan D Busch Revision of my poem "For Zac", my son more precious than rubies ......
A Father Muses as the Eighth Anniversary of His Son's Death Nears by Alan D Busch For Benjamin 2,920 days ago ......
First To Be by Alan D Busch Poetical Musings from an old translation of a Jewish hymn "Yigdal" ......
Lonely for You, Forever (under construction) by Alan D Busch Reflections that evening of Ben's death ......
God and Man Chat by Alan D Busch God and Man Chat ......
For Zac by Alan D Busch Reflections for and about Zac ... who has leapt over some of life's highest hurdles....
Tree of Life by Alan D Busch My father is very ill in a hospital. His son reflects ... ...
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Articles
 The 10th, Last and Worst Plague by Alan D Busch Pharoah Had Free Will ... He Just Made Poor Decisions...
Author and Friend Micki Peluso Leads Fight Against Drunk Driving by Alan D Busch My good friend, author Micki Peluso, in support of the work of MADD, Mothers Against Drunk Driving, has published a new piece on this persistent, dangerous and tragic problem.
Micki, herself...
Living With Parkinson's Disease by Alan D Busch In the first in a series of essays, Chicago writer Alan D. Busch examines the nature of the relationship between his Jewish faith and Parkinson's Disease with which he has lived now for eleven years....
What DO We Read on the Back of the (In)famous Photograph? by Alan D Busch Chicago-based writer Alan D. Busch, in a follow up story to his interview with Israeli author and professor Dan Porat (that you can read here on Articlesbase.com) explores some of the issues written "...
Looking Out The Rear Window: Ten Years Ago by Alan D Busch Look back wuth me at ten years without Ben and learn some new stuff ......
Jewish Life Learning Aboard The New York City Subway by Alan D Busch Jewish Life Lessons with Alan on New York's subway. Come on. Here, sit by me... :)...
The Jewish Press Publishes These Lights We Kindle by Alan D Busch Read Alan's newly revised and expanded version...
Jewish Humor by Alan D Busch Read Alan's tongue in cheek article about overly-used expressions in the Jewish community by clicking on the link below. When you have finished reading the piece, leave a comment. It'll appear insta...
I Grieve For Ben At My Side (final revision) by Alan D Busch final before submission...
I Grieve For Ben At My Side by Alan D Busch Next week will mark the ninth anniversary of my son Ben's passing. Here are some thoughts I have about that somber reality....
As The Ninth Year Approaches ... Yom Yom by Alan D Busch draft...
Stepping into the Sukkah by Alan D Busch This article, with several slight revisions, was published on Aish.com in September of 2007 and appears in the anthology Everybody's Got A Story, published by Judaica Press, edited by Ruchama King Fe...
Fundamentals of Fathers and Sons by Alan D Busch A working draft of a preface to my manuscript in progress about the last several weeks of my father's life. Read my chapters, some already published, others in revision that I've posted in "My Stori...
A Father Muses as the Eighth Anniversary of His Son's Death Nears by Alan D Busch The Prose and Poetry of Bereavement...
Making Lemonade ... Parkinson's Really 'Sux', Doesn't It? by Alan D Busch Living with Parkinson's ......
Parkinson's Disease Sux by Alan D Busch Chapter 1 of Parkinson's Disease "Sux"...
Every Day is Thanksgiving by Alan D Busch Thanksgiving is not just about a turkey dinner ......
Glimpse a further glimpse of a New Preface for my second book by Alan D Busch A further revision of a new preface for my second book....
Glimpses of a Preface for Book Two (UNDER CONSTRUCTION) by Alan D Busch Preface Book Two (UNDER CONSTRUCTION)...
It's For the Birds by Alan D Busch Favor Our Feathery Friends ......
Escorting the Dead by Alan D Busch Doing a good deed for which there is no reciprocity ......
Probing Beyond the Surface ... by Alan D Busch Well, ... what have you learned ...?...
These Are The People: Sick! Sick? You Call That Sick? My Mom Taught Me ... by Alan D Busch My mom taught me......
God's Role by Alan D Busch Reflections on the Interactions between Man and His Creator ......
Hug Your Kids Each Day As If It Were ... by Alan D Busch Experience really is the best teacher ......
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News
 It's Finally Here! by Alan D Busch After four years following the passing of my father, my memoir of his life ... our lives is published.
Immediate availability is through Kindle can now be had. i downloaded it this morning o...
It's Finally Here! by Alan D Busch After four years following the passing of my father, my memoir of his life ... our lives is published.
Immediate availability is through Kindle can now be had. i downloaded it this morning o...
See Alan's front book cover in Jewish Business News by Alan D Busch Alan D. Busch would like you to view the front cover of his soon to be released
Between 10 and 5 With Dad/Keeping the
Fifth Commandment. The design is by Heather Busch. Hope you like it and th...
Synopsis for Alan D. Busch's second book Between Fathers and Sons by Alan D Busch Please read the synopsis of Alan D. Busch's second book Beyween Fathers and Sons....
Between 10 and 5 With Dad/Keeping The 5th Commandment by Alan D. Busch by Alan D Busch Alan D. Busch's second book Between 10 and 5 With Dad will be published in 4-6 weeks by Cybernet Publications. Alan's website alandbusch.com is presently under construction, but advance orders can be ...
Click on www.articlesbase.com to read the latest work of Alan D. Busch by Alan D Busch Read Alan's latest pieces which have been widely reloaded across the internet....
News Stories by Alan D. Busch by Alan D Busch Read Alan's news stories in the suburban feature section of the Chicago Tribune....
Follow Me on www.examiner.com and chicago tribune.com by Alan D Busch Please take some time (if you have it ... :)) to read and comment on my newly published pieces on both www.examiner.com and chicagotribune.com...
Alan now writing for examiner.com by Alan D Busch Follow me on examiner.com as the Chicago Judaism examiner. Click on this link .... Www.examiner.com/x-60706-Chicago-judaism-examiner-y2010 m...
Losing Ben published at www.examiners.com by Alan D Busch Please read chapter 12, Losing Ben, from my upcoming book Between Fathers and Sons. It is posted at www.examiner.com. Just click on the link below. Please let me hear from you by posting a comment at ...
Help Me To Select A Chapter by Alan D Busch I have written two versions of chapter 7. Both will be posted under the My Books section of My Den. One is entitled Kissing Dad's Nose and the other is under the same title but parenthetically labeled...
Alan Asks A Favor of His Readers by Alan D Busch Attn: Readers of Alan D. Busch...
I Grieve ... Published online at Chicago Jewish United Federation by Alan D Busch on the anniversary of my son's 9th yahrzeit...
IS IT STILL OKAY IF YOUR FATHER CRIES TO BE PUBLISHED BY THE JEWISH PRESS by Alan D Busch The Jewish Press (NY)America's Largest Indepedent Weekly Jewish Newspaper will publish Alan's most recent revision (which i have posted on Authorsden.com under My Stories. Thank you to the many many r...
Reckonings A Language You Understand in the Orthodox Union by Alan D Busch Reckonings is a chapter of my book in progress about the time I spent with my father Brigadier General Dr. Albert I. Busch during the last weeks of his life....
New Horizons Features Alan's Story by Alan D Busch Available today "Shabbos Minchah With Reb Isser"-a story of trustworthy and loving advice that put me on the right path......
Alan on Facebook by Alan D Busch Join others who are reading Snapshots In Memory of Ben chapter by chapter,free of charge. Copies are available for purchase $15.95,includes USA shipping. Reach me at alandbusch@aol.com...
This Sunday, 6/21/09 at www.aish.com by Alan D Busch Please click on www.aish.com this Sunday, 6/21/09 to read an original short story which appears here at "authors den" as "Losing A Grandson" but which will be reentitled "Losing Ben" and ... (see belo...
Read Alan's Short Story Published In This Week' s Jewish Press by Alan D Busch Please read Alan's short story Tefillin and Teacher published in this week's edition of The Jewish Press. Thank you!...
Updated Publication Credits of Alan D. Busch by Alan D Busch Alan's published credits are listed here, Revised April 2009....
Shabbos Mincha With Reb Isser to Be Published by Alan D Busch My final revision of Shabbos Mincha With Reb Isser will be published by Horizons Magazine, Targum Press, Summer of 2009. Please scroll down and click on the links to read the stories....
RABBI DR. AKIVA TATZ TO SPEAK IN SKOKIE, ILLINOIS by Alan D Busch DO NOT MISS THIS WONDERFUL OPPORTUNITY TO HEAR RENOWNED TORAH GIANT RABBI DR. AKIVA TATZ AT KESSER MAARIV SYNAGOGUE IN SKOKIE, ILLINOIS....
My Story Reckoning To Be Published by Alan D Busch The second chapter of my manuscript "Reckoning" about my late father, Albert I. Busch, DDS, will be published by the Orthodox Union (OU) at ou.org. It can be read here at AD by clicking on the links b...
Tefilin and Teacher Publication News by Alan D Busch Hot off the press as it were!...
MEDICAL UPDATE FROM THURSDAY NIGHT 7/17/08 by Alan D Busch PLEASE RESPOND TO THIS. SEE BELOW....
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| Snapshots In Memory of Ben
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The Book of Ben
In memory of my late son Ben, please visit this blog containing nearly 200 postings of Alan's writing.
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Poetry, Dialogue and Composition
The poetry and sundry other writings of Alan D. Busch.
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Additional information
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Contact
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Alan D. Busch 4441 Palma Pl. Skokie
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