Regarding the Las Vegas shooting: Automatic assault rifles do not need to be legal in the United States or anywhere else. Yes, yes, the right to bear arms is a Constitutional right. Okay, no problem. Personally, I’m not a fan of handguns, shotguns, rifles, semi-automatic weapons — actually, I’m not Read more…
…an undeniably steamy effort that delivers plenty of heat in its sex scenes, while falling significantly short in dramatic terms. — Hollywood Reporter review (click here to read) Oh, lesbian cinema. Loving you is like loving an abusive partner. You keep disappointing me, hurting me, letting me down… and I Read more…
I am a white southerner from a historically privileged family. There. I said it. It wasn’t as hard as I thought it would be. Of course, like most Americans, my story is a little more complicated than that. I’m not accepted as a southerner because I didn’t (completely) grow up Read more…
As an author who publishes pretty much exclusively on Amazon (and yeah, you can yell at me for supporting the Evil Empire if you want, but it was a financial decision), I use their Amazon Marketing Services (AMS) platform to advertise my books quite a bit. For some reason, I Read more…
“You can’t tell white people a story about white people and expect them to understand.” A girl I dated almost twenty years ago — a wonderful, strong, brave woman of color — told me that. I don’t remember the exact circumstances, but I remember that I was the white person Read more…
Hello, friends. How have you been? …Pretty good?… I’m glad! Oh — how have *I* been?? Well, funny you should ask, actually, because there’s a LOT going on in my life right now. While I suppose we are all busy all the time these days, last Sunday, I completed a Read more…
Oh, friends. You should chastise me. You really should. I was on top of things for a while there, getting back into a good routine of writing my thousand-word minimum every day, and then… I fell off the wagon. There’s something I need to explain to you about writing, and Read more…
A lot of the people around me are bleeding right now. This new Trump-Pence administration our collective short-sightedness and apathy has created in the United States is already leading to a maelstrom of troubling consequences. I get Washington Post pop-ups on my computer, and besides the OH MY GOD PLEASE Read more…
I’m so darn lazy that I’m pulling this out of an email I wrote rather than taking the time to write an original blog post. It’s about Orange is the New Black. The good news is that, hey, at least it’s short: I read the book a while back, and for the Read more…
Over the Christmas holidays, I traveled to my ancestral home of rural Missouri. And when I say rural, I mean really, really rural. I mean the roads are all still dirt, just like they have been for as long as anyone can remember, and I mean that your nearest neighbor Read more…