It’s not yet eight o’clock in the morning as I write this, and so far, my day has gotten off to a completely ordinary start. I woke up a little after six, read for a few minutes, stumbled into the kitchen to start my coffee, did some basic exercises while Read more…
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…
If you haven’t watched it yet, you need to see it. You need to educate yourself by getting inside the mindset of the white supremacists who would have us believe that their tribe is going to save this country. Look, I don’t like the news, either, but sometimes we need 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…
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…
Like her music or hate it, but give props to the Force of Nature that is — and has been for 35 years — Madonna. Few women have done more to redefine, and bring into the light of day, female sexual desire. Before Madonna, how common was it, how mainstream was Read more…