When my mom was diagnosed with dementia/Alzheimer’s 2003 her life drastically changed and so did the dynamics of her family. Every holiday, every important event she handled, invited everyone and had a house full of company. Nothing was ever too hard for her to do for anyone and if it meant driving hours alone in [...]
[1] In defense of Scripture. Un-arguably the Bible as a set of ideas predates the Bible as a written text, no one can argue otherwise, at least not reasonably. BUT – the reason we hold the Bible as “sacred” is because we believe (rightly or wrongly) that it is the best and the most accurate [...]
Whether you publish your book in hard back, paperback, or in one of the many eBook formats currently available, unless you take more care, it won’t be long before you become ignored as a writer, or worse, totally forgotten. What do I mean by this? It’s simple, so simple in fact that I’m surprised so [...]
When I picked up Cormac McCarthy’s The Road I didn’t really look at the “#1 National Bestseller” on the cover. Heck, it seems like all the books on the shelf at Wal-Mart say that, or some similar claim. And I didn’t even notice the “Winner of the Pulitzer Prize” blurb beneath the author’s name. I [...]
Are We Alert and Ready? Can you cheat your way to the top and not get caught? Using another man’s thoughts and work can you make it your own? Agent Ryan Conley was at the bottom of the pole working as an ATF agent. He needed a break to increase his pay scale and get [...]
My newest spy thriller story about death, destruction and regret. (Of course this story is labeled as fiction. No one would ever believe it was true!) * Foreword * At the end of a great world war in a dilapidated three room house, a little boy peered through the ice covered glass of his bedroom window and counted [...]
The Island of Whispers (available here) has been called Watership Down with a difference. The difference is that there are no cuddly rabbits. Just rats. They live on the little island that’s tucked under the world-famous Forth Railway Bridge in Scotland. They’ve been there for centuries. Then a group of them attempts to flee to the mainland. [...]
Back through the years on a winter day Hand in hand following the walkway Till we reached a picturesque bay We sat so close that we looked as a bouquet We went beyond words as they could not say How deep our love was or how much it might weigh It was our eyes’ job [...]
Just as Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung knew so long ago, “…language was not always adequate to express what we’re feeling but often, our hands know how to solve a problem with which the intellect struggles in vain.” When it comes to expressing ourselves creatively, there is nothing more exciting than repurposing old books, tools, [...]
Inside – it was fear I carried -
but why run into traffic only
to die?
why cross a crowded street
only to die?
