Charles Ota Heller

In my forthcoming memoir (second of a series), titled Ready, Fire, Aim! Tales of Entrepreneurial Terror, I describe encounters with various famous people. I hope you enjoyed the first two, “The Blonde-Haired Singer” and “The Little Educator,” and I hope you will like this one:   THE ROCKET SCIENTIST               My so-called “office” at…

A chapter in my forthcoming memoir (second of a trilogy) describes encounters with some famous people I have met during my life as a student, athlete, engineer, academic, entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and author. I hope you enjoyed Part 1, titled “The Blonde-Headed Singer,” and I hope you will like Part 2: THE LITTLE EDUCATOR             In…

Charles Ota Heller: Baltimore radio and library appearances http://www.prattlibrary.org/locations/reisterstownroad/

My interview with Sheilah Kast, host of “Maryland Morning,” which airs on Baltimore’s National Public Radio station, WYPR, will be rebroadcast on Friday, November 23. The particulars are:                            Friday, November 23, 9:15 am, WYPR-FM, 88.1 I will be discussing, and reading from, Prague: My Long Journey Home, at the Enoch Pratt Free Library on Wednesday…

Oklahoma State University’s Edmon Low Library My faith in America’s youth was reinforced last week on the beautiful campus of my alma mater, Oklahoma State University. When my book, Prague: My Long Journey Home, was published ten months ago, I was concerned that the only readers interested in my story would be older Americans with…

I will have the opportunity to discuss my book, Prague: My Long Journey Home, at my alma mater, Oklahoma State University, on several occasions next week. In all but one, I’ll be joined by my friend, Chic Dambach, the author of the wonderful memoir, Exhaust the Limits. If you’ll be in Stillwater or anywhere nearby,…

A chapter in my forthcoming memoir describes encounters with some famous people I have met during my life as a student, athlete, engineer, academic, entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and author. I hope you enjoy Part 1, titled “The Blonde-Headed Singer.” THE BLONDE-HEADED SINGER             One fall afternoon of my freshman year at Oklahoma State University, my…

vimeo.com/50099779It’s a discussion of my book at the Walden University plenary session in Orlando, Florida. (I don’t know why I keep looking at the papers in my hand. They don’t contain the answers to the questions. Bad habit!)

A week ago, I had the pleasure and honor to participate in an annual Authors’ Luncheon in Annapolis, Maryland. It was sponsored by Metavivor, a wonderful organization which advocates for research funding for MBC — metastatic breast cancer, a terminal illness. With some ninety persons, many of them cancer survivors, in the audience, seven authors discussed their books,…

On Saturday, September 15, 11:00 am – 2:30 pm, at the Doubletree Hotel on Holiday Court, off Riva Road, in Annapolis, Maryland:   I’ll be privileged to participate in an Authors’ Luncheon, sponsored by a wonderful organization – METAvivor – devoted to funding research in the field of metastatic breast cancer. This is the Annapolis…