Why The Founding Fathers Matter for Americans
Young people tell me I'm out of touch for believing in the American Founding Fathers. I'm told they are racist,…
Worldly Fears
Worldly Fears: Haters are just like Crickets; they make a lot of noise, you hear it, but you can't see them,…
Women Fiction Characters
Women Fiction Characters: Like most fiction novelists and story writers, I write both male and female…
An Ordinary Forest
It was an ordinary forest, as far as spooky-looking woods go, filled mostly with craggy twisted oak trees,…
You Don’t Beat the River
You Don't Beat the River: It was a good day for being on the river—warm, bright, a few clouds to make the sky…
Inanimate Objects
Inanimate Objects Inanimate objects are not words
That roll smoothly from your tongue into speech But…
Mother Kept on Singing
Mother Kept on Singing: When I slept at Aunt Josephine’s, in Middle, mother’s hometown - I slept alone. A…
Predestined Events
Predestined Events: Homelessness, like hunger, exists at the soul level. One might dwell in magnificent…
I’m Too Sexy
“I’m Too Sexy” by Right Said Fred pumped through the speakers, DJ Slick signaling my turn on stage. With eager…
A Religious Experience
A Religious Experience: The room embodied religion. As soon as I opened the door, blinked away the disbelief,…
I’m Not A Good Writer
I'm Not A Good Writer: Occasionally, someone will read one of my books and exclaim, "Wow, who knew you were…
Beyond the Horizon
Beyond the Horizon: Foremost on his mind the vacant stare of two yellow-tinted, dead, and sightless eyes, Roth…
Brenda Simpson’s Self-Improvement
Brenda Simpson was certainly no stranger to bookstores. No libraries, mind you, but bookstores.
The libraries…
Proverbial Wisdom
Proverbial wisdom Do pants excite ants?
Do bees have nice knees?
Does a donkey hide its hind leg
when…
Point of View – Landmines and Pitfalls
Landmines and Pitfalls: Okay, so from my previous offerings, you know where to open your curtain and whose Point of…