SALEM, Ohio – Rifle marksmanship is like performing surgery. There’s a method used to accomplish both. The only difference is when surgery is performed correctly, the person at the other end lives. That’s the world that Lt. Col. J. Cletus ...
Read More »#HowIWrite Blog Hop: Jumping into my mirky pages
I was tagged by a fellow author across the Atlantic ocean to take part in this Blog Hop: Scottish literary author John Logan, whose novel, “The Survival of Thomas Ford” I reviewed on my blog last year. The fun behind ...
Read More »A tale of two births: A father’s story of helping his wife through labor twice
“In the end, if we do everything wrong, but he’s born healthy and alive, then none of that matters.” This is what I used to say all the time leading up to the birth of our first son, Phoenix. In a way, ...
Read More »Listening: It’s like riding a bicycle
My wife often accuses me of not listening to her, but that’s because she doesn’t understand my brain. I have a hypothesis about my brain, and I think most guys’ brains are the same way… Listening is like riding a ...
Read More »Saved from what?
Note: This is a chapter excerpt from my upcoming novel, JUMP. This is a work of fiction. — Protesters. It didn’t matter what religion you were, what political lever you pulled, whether you smoked marijuana or were against it, ...
Read More »A reflection on a love story
I used to work as a Pizzaiolo in Pittsburgh, and a fellow pizza maker (was his name Carl? I can never remember names of acquaintances from far ago) was head over heels over a girl. I thought that was great: ...
Read More »Great sentences are not good enough
I got suckered into reading a novel titled “All That Is” after I read a review once. In that review (which I can’t seem to find anymore) the reader mentioned that author James Salter is a master of sentence structure. ...
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