People sometimes ask me if I would still have chosen to be born had I known what would happen. My answer is always “yes.” Oh, there are things I would do differently, but that’s life. We all have 20/20 hindsight.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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The joy of being a small business is…taxes. The joy of having one small business writing books, another small business renting part of my house, and selling a second house to pay for my Obamacare medical expenses, is MORE taxes.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I watched Black Panther last weekend with friends. I watched The Greatest Showman this weekend with family. The two experiences were unequal in the extreme. The Black Panther takes place primarily in Wakanda, a proud and insular fictional nation in[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Today is the first day in my life in which I do not share this Earth with Billy Graham. I grew up hearing about him and listening to him on television. I learned how he worked with Reverend Martin Luther[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Long ago, before hipsters walked around with cell phones twittering in their hands and dinosaurs walked the Earth, merry bands of Europeans came to America in search of a new life. Some sought riches in the New World. Some sought[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
So we’ve got a new movie coming out soon in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Black Panther. It’s been promoted by some press as the first black superhero movie. And others as the first black blockbuster movie. I’m certain it will[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
With the upcoming run of the much-touted “First Black Superhero Movie” from Marvel/Disney, I’ve been going back and watching some of the superhero movies from yesteryear. Wild Wild West. Yeah, I know, not really a superhero movie, but I was[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Most of you know that I make money selling my stories on various online platforms. Amazon, iTunes, and Smashwords to name a few. The largest amount of my sales, and the largest steady income, comes from Barnes and Noble, though.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I wanted to read the novel before the Ready Player One movie comes out, and so I grabbed it and read it last week. Audible was quick to fill my fix on that, especially since I’ve built up a few[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Many of those who will see this movie were not alive when the Twin Towers were brought down. Many will never understand the world we lived in before that day. And they will not understand how we reacted. But this[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…