Our Children

Our children are not safe. This is a fact, but one skewed by further description. Our children are not safe in school. They aren’t safe on the street. They aren’t safe at home. They aren’t safe in movie theaters, libraries, restaurants, or even in church. Our children are not safe. If we take guns out […]

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The Middle and Crazy Days

  I’ve had a crazy last couple of months. I know that such a statement doesn’t separate me from the pack. Everyone living in the hustle and bustle of the world had probably had a crazy time in recent times, quite a few making my own experiences look tame and borderline dull. That’s not going […]

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Sticking to Your Dream

I’ve spent a lot of time reading articles on how to follow your dreams. There are thousands of the damned things out there and I, for one, have learned quite a bit about the first five or so minutes of that act. Have you noticed how few people actually cover the really difficult side of […]

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Disconnection and Reconnection

I’ve had an oddly crazy three months. I’ve trained for one job, and now am switching to a completely different one. I’ve published my first novel and actually had some success with it. Talk about a mind blower. Since February I’ve written another novel, The Story’s Writer, and a novella, Walking Back. I’ve done all […]

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Water… Water… Huh…

Today is National Water Conservation Day. I hadn’t the foggiest idea that such a day even existed until my wife mentioned it with her usual ability to let me in on things. I told her that I didn’t care. I ran outside and turned every hose on the dock to full-blast. I took three showers, […]

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Being Thirty-Five

My wife posted this picture on Facebook as her way of saying “Happy Birthday!” and I couldn’t have asked for anything more. Seeing the experiences all over again, though I’m not a fan of physical indicators of memory, made me grin about the year I’ve had. It has been a stellar one! I got scuba […]

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