Riding on the Storm

In seeking out what's responsible for the degeneration of American culture over the last 70 years, one finds many culprits to choose...

We got Lucy unexpectedly, when the director of the mental health clinic where my wife worked went crazy, as they all seemed to do eventu...

There's been much talk in America over the years about war. Aside from the unjustified, and unforgivable, wars the American right...

...For all sad words of tongue, or pen, The saddest are these, "It might have been." -John Greenleaf Whittier In A Questi...

I've been thinking a lot lately about what I'm doing as a writer. In this age of media over-saturation, does anyone have time t...

A central thing we do as human beings, in our interaction with one another, is learn to block out psychic pain; and the degree to whic...

Al Frankin's resignation over charges of sexual misconduct, allegedly occurring decades ago, and never substantiated by anything but ...

Eighteen years after deciding to pursue serious writing - that is, writing not just intended to entertain, but also to express some ideas ...

Having completed my volume of collected essays, 2014 to 2017, I determined I needed to re-access my original purpose in writing this blog. ...

In order for the reader to understand this story, a few words must be said about a family and the patriarch of this family who died nea...