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...
In my previous post I outlined the “road trip” that my wife and I took during the summer of 2026. In this post I will describe the trip in more detail “day by day.”
I should note that one can drive from Omaha, Nebraska to Bismarck, North Dakota, in 8 hours and 29 minutes (per Google, along Interstates 29 and 94). Even taking the more circuitous route that we took, avoiding the interstates, takes only nine hours and 24 minutes. So, by taking three days to get to Bismarck, we were demonstrating...
My wife and I enjoy occasional long “road trips,” in which the road is part of the trip. We are of the age where hiking, kayaking, and such vigorous activities are less attractive. Looking out the car windows has become our preferred road-trip activity. As such, and because interstate travel can be mentally exhausting and boring at times, we normally take to the back roads, the secondary roads that allow one to drive into America.
This blog post is a continuation of my chapters on “Travel” in...
Sometime during the spring of 2026, a letter arrived in the mail announcing that my 60th and “last” high school reunion was going to be held in Bismarck, North Dakota, beginning on Friday, July 31, 2026. I think what caught my attention – what got me thinking – and what eventually got me to attend – was the reference to the “last” - the "final" reunion. I took those words as a challenge.
I graduated from Bismarck High School (BHS) in 1966. BHS was the only public high school in Bismarck back...
