Write On, An Author’s Journey coming November 18, 2026 in eBook, audiobook, paperback, large print, and hardback formats. Having a release date means I can set a preorder for the ebook, and before …

Let me begin this post by saying I don’t believe sexual preference is a choice. I believe you are either born straight, gay, bi, or asexual. I don’t believe it’s something you can control. Those pe…

Today I’m using Pages to write my blog post. Normally, I would use Word. But Word is pissing me off, so I thought I’d give Pages a try. After all, it’s already on my Mac.  Why is Word pissing …

I graduated from high school almost fifty-four years ago. Like many Boomers, I keep in touch with some of my high school friends through Facebook, yet even Boomers seem to be using that platform le…

CBS’s 60-Minutes was planning to run a segment on their show about CECOT and what they deemed  “brutal and tortuous conditions.” But then the segment was pulled from …

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Without words I couldn’t do my job. I’m a writer. I’ve always taken a special interest in words. I remember in junior high school finding  etymology fascinating. Even now, when writing a …

An American patriot is one who supports and defends the United States of America. An American patriot is not defined as someone who is a loyalist to Trump, no more than it is defined as someone who…

Do you know what violent criminals have in common? A lack of empathy. There have been studies that show empathetic people are less likely to engage in crime. Empathetic teenagers are less likely to…

After I heard of Trump’s executive order aimed at eradicating “anti-Christian bias” in the federal government, I read some articles to help understand what he planned. According to various online n…

The Beatles first appeared on The Ed Sullivan Show when I was in the fourth grade.  I remember the clutching of pearls by some adults regarding the length of the band members’ h…

Once upon a time, there was a boy named Olon Dusk. He lived in a country that used star stones as currency. Star stones were believed to have been placed on the planet by space aliens thousands of …

Conservatives like to say public schools indoctrinate children. I supposed they’re right. When I went to school, I stood up every day in class and said the Pledge of Allegiance. I was told our…

After reading the title of this blog, those of you out there who have been annoyed by my recent opinion pieces might be nodding about now, while saying, “Well, duhh. I knew that.” To which I respon…

My favorite teacher in high school was Mr. Rowe.  He was my sophomore English teacher, during the first year Lake Havasu High School opened its doors. The last year he taught at Lake Hava…

This new administration keeps telling us DEI is responsible for subpar employees. It prevents employers from hiring the best. Yet by Trump’s own cabinet picks, the recent confirmation hearings are …

Growing up I didn’t attend church with my parents.  Occasionally my sister and I would go to Sunday School, yet we didn’t have a church family but that was okay, because I had my family. My immedia…

During Trump’s first term, MAGA darling Steve Bannon talked about the strategy of flooding the zone with shit to distract the media. It also works on the American public by overwhelming us, making …

Back when Twitter was Twitter, and I was still on the platform, one of the people I followed was author Stephen King. King was never shy about expressing his political views, and because of that, h…

After we moved to Oregon over three years ago, I was finally able to have something I’ve wanted my entire adult life—a  vegetable garden that actually produces fresh vegetables. A couple …

My mother—one of my dearest friends and greatest champions—passed away less than two weeks before the last election. While Mom’s death was not a surprise, after all she was 96 years old, suffered f…

According to a recent New York Post article, “A majority of Gen Z and millennial workers believe that “cheating” in the workplace is completely acceptable, such as napping on th…

Microsoft decided to ruin my day today.  I am an author. I write for a living. One of the tools I use is Microsoft Word. I have used Word for at least 30 years. I started using it back in the …

In 2022, fifty years after I graduated from Lake Havasu High School, I was one of the recipients of its Distinguished Alumni awards. We had moved to Oregon from Lake Havasu City the previous fall, …

I learned something after the assassination of the United Health Care CEO.  For years I had been hearing about the “elites.” You know those elites, the ones in Hollywood, media, corporati…

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