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...
I first heard about the Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library (TRPL) a year or so ago, when I stumbled upon a post on social media describing the status of the library’s construction in Medora, North Dakota. That post said that the library was scheduled to open on July 4, 2026 (the 250th anniversary of America).
My wife and I had talked about visiting this country’s presidential libraries, and I was looking for ideas as to where to go on our 2026 road trip. I was born and raised in North...
This post is a book review of Communion: Finding My Way Back to Faith by JD Vance (2026). I was attracted to the book because 1) I like JD Vance politically, and 2) I am always interested in “Catholic conversion” stories. What leads a person to choose to go through all the work (e.g. the RCIA/OCIA process) to become a Catholic – to convert from what they were? JD Vance, from an evangelical background, was baptized into the Catholic faith in mid-August of 2019.
It tis the season where tomatoes are often ripening in the garden faster than they can be eaten or given away. In such times, I often make my “Smoky Tomato Soup” (which can be frozen and eaten throughout the winter). I also often make a batch or two at the end of the season when the last of the tomatoes are removed to ripen inside.
I will warn you, while the recipe is simple, it is also messy and labor-intensive. I just made a batch yesterday and it took me about three hours from the first...
