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What Are You Prepping For?

Just when you think it couldn’t get worse, it does. Every aspect of government that I think should function, doesn’t. I’d like to wring collective necks, but that doesn’t jive with, “love your enemies.” And when did our enemies become “us”? Where’s a Good Bomb Shelter...

Thy Will Be Done

It occurred to me that reading the newspaper and reading the Old Testament on the same day makes for a weird kind of time travel. Judah and Israel at war, Babylonian captivity, attacks by Assyrians, fill its pages showing God’s punishment for idol worship and other...

Silent No More

  If you’ve been reading my blogs, I’ve stayed away from all things political because I believe both conservatives and liberals, and everyone in between, have much to offer America. And I still do. But Trump’s recent executive order renaming Lake ONTARIO Lake...

Writers’ Block Not Just for Writers

I’ve never had the luxury, or excuse, of writer’s block since for over ten years, all my writing had a deadline. My favorite definition of journalism is “making something complex, clear, quickly, for people who have other things to do.” Boy! I could take that apart...

Are You a Reader?

My partner in literary crime, Rita M. Reali, (see below) and I share vendor space at various shows around Crossville and Cookeville. She’s more experienced in the art of selling her books than I. She has no problem asking passers-by, “Are you a reader?” She’s so...