About Dennis Merritt’s Web Site

Lately I’ve been writing and publishing on Substack. I highly recommend it and encourage anyone who enjoys my stories or opinions to subscribe to either or both, or just browse. It’s free either way.

Stories, Threads and Magic – A Substack publication of written stories with podcast versions as well.

Thoughts – A Substack publication of opinions.

I’ve published on YouTube as well.

YouTube – Many videos, topics include contra dancing, fretted instruments, canoeing, candlepin bowling, music and just plain fun.

Books I’ve written or published

Jazz Chords for Baritone Ukulele – Unlocking and understanding the mysteries of four note jazz chords on a four string instrument. Various articles and videos and a link to the book available on Amazon.
Understanding Jazz Chords on Guitar – The same information only expanded for the six strings of a guitar.
Find-a-Frog – A kid’s book, looking for frogs hidden in a small frog pond.
I’ve Got a Better One – This is a collection of stories told by my friend, Sidney Feldman. It starts with his adventures solo climbing mountains in Africa and ends with a quiet cabin in the mountains of Georgia.
Reflection – Unlocking and understanding the mysteries of life.

Other Things

Music for Contra Dancing — A series of video interviews with many of the very talented contra musicians who made their way through the dynamic Asheville contra scene. Included also are some videos of dances.

Thoughts — Opinions written before I started Substack.

Stories — Stories written before I started Substack

NEW! actually OLD! — A pre-Wordpress web site from around 2003, including the Climbing Guide to Brown University written in 1966 and my Dad’s War Diary from 1944.

AmziLogic — I used to write Prolog software for a living. Here’s a link to the Web page for that work.

Two Prolog Books

Adventure in Prolog — The classic text for learning Prolog programming.

Building Expert Systems in Prolog — And the classic on how to use Prolog for expert systems, AI back when the knowledge was hand coded!

See the PAGES menu on the right for all the specific pages.