America is over two hundred years old now, but we face divisions the like of which we have not faced in many decades. We’d had a series of single party systems before that. First the Federalists believed in the unmatched[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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I’ve told the story before. I had healthcare insurance before Obamacare. It was 100 bucks a month and did what I needed. I spent several years without healthcare after Obamacare ended my insurance, though I finally got Obamacare this year[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I’ve learned a lot about writing in the last few years. The first thing I thought I knew after decades of writing stories is that I was at the top of my game and ready for the big leagues. I[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Today is the day to remember what generations of American patriots have fought for. We remember their sacrifice, and we celebrate what they gave us. We remember the Declaration of Independence that brave men signed in the face of a[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I saw the new Transformers and Pirates of the Caribbean movies in the last two weeks, and in many cases they are the same movie. In other ways, they are completely different. They are both a kind of origin story,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
“The Shang are painting us with sensor sweeps,” Betty reported and glanced towards one of the displays where it showed a complex diagram of colors. “We’re scattering and jamming below detection levels. But I think they’re getting suspicious.” “Prepare[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Political assassination has no place in a civil society. There. I’ve said it. Again. I’ve been called a hypocrite and worse for that saying in the past, but I’ll say it again because I think it’s important. Deadly important. Political[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
So some of you know that I used to have healthcare. I did what you are supposed to do. I went to college, I got a degree, and I got a job using that degree. Then the computer industry in[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The events of this weekend remind me why, when I first wrote Jack of Harts, I had things get worse before things got better. There are generations of people out there who have been taught that others are less human[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
In Flanders fields the poppies blow Between the crosses, row on row, That mark our place; and in the sky The larks, still bravely singing, fly Scarce heard amid the guns below. We are the Dead. Short days ago We[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…