Robert Charles Burdett (Bob) is a writer, author, and playwright. His major interests are genealogy, architecture, history, and religion. He is a native of North Dakota but has lived in Omaha, Nebraska since 1970.
Burdett is a graduate of Bismarck Junior College (1968), North Dakota State University (BSIE, 1970), Creighton University (MBA, 1975), and the Archdiocese of Omaha Catholic Biblical School (2003-7).
In an earlier life, Burdett was a statistical quality control engineer for Western Electric (Ma Bell’s manufacturing unit), Lucent Technologies, and Avaya. This, in part, explains his strange writing style (e.g., all those tables and section headings).
A more complete biography can be found in "BS2: An Autobiography."
Robert Charles Burdett (Bob) is a writer, author, and playwright. His major interests are genealogy, architecture, history, and religion. He is a native of North Dakota but has lived in Omaha, Nebraska since 1970.
Burdett is a graduate of Bismarck Junior College (1968), North Dakota State University (BSIE, 1970), Creighton University (MBA, 1975), and the Archdiocese of Omaha Catholic Biblical School (2003-7).
In this book “A Catholic” provides some tips for how you can pray Scripture. The first three chapters define and describe: “A Catholic,” prayer types, and Scripture (from a Catholic perspective). Chapter 4 provides the promised “Prayer Writing Techniques” noted in the books subtitle. The next four chapters provide some examples of...
Building upon a thesis proposed by Arthur Gray, Master of Jesus College, Cambridge, this book contains a history play which dramatizes how Henry Goodyer, Thomas Burdett, and Raphael Holinshed, via a literary salon called the “Polesworth Circle,” educated, trained, and supported two of England’s most notable poets and playwrights, Michael Drayton...
Shortly after December 7, 1941, the Genda, Oshima and Shiroyama families were uprooted from their Terminal Island, California homes and interred at Manzanar. This book provides some details on the lives of these three families before, during and after their incarceration. It also examines the U.S. Governments conduct during the war, life on...
The photograph above (or to the side) was taken by my Bird Buddy birdfeeder (and AI-enhanced). AI added the sign and “watercolored” the photograph; everything else is real.
If you are still looking for a unique Christmas gift for someone who likes historical plays about William Shakespeare, please consider The Polesworth Circle. If you are looking for an apologetic series on the Catholic faith and/or praying scripture, please consider one...
As I noted in one of my recent articles, I read magazines with a pen or pencil in hand, underlining or otherwise marking the things that interest me, and then ripping out and saving the articles that are heavily marked up.
Over the last year or so, I ripped out and saved three articles from First Things that were focused on the mental and emotional health of young women, especially self-described liberal women. I suspect that I was interested in these articles, in part, because I am the...
I recently published the December 25, 2025, online edition of the Burdett Bugle (Volume 31, Issue 1). That is the fancy name that I have given our annual Christmas letter – for the past 31 years.
My wife and I got married in 1981 and we apparently avoided Christmas letters until 1990. Then (through 1992) we wrote and mailed out “typical” (newsy and braggadocious) Christmas letters, although ours was lengthier than most (2-3 pages). When I say that “we” wrote, I mean that “I” wrote. This has...
