President Fraud & Resistance Fighters
I read an essay about Trump’s pick for National Security Adviser, Michael Flynn. It was a highly well-produced article that disputed the mainstream media’s reporting on Flynn. This particular essay...
View ArticleA Fortunate Girl
The roads are slick with snow and ice. The sky is grey and foreboding. Holed up here in my office, thinking of Karly Sheehan. Today is her birthday. Or the day that marks what is her 15th birthday,...
View ArticleNever Too Old to Take the Plunge
In my travels as a writer, one question I am often asked is if I grew up wanting to a be a writer. It’s a reasonable question. Many, if not most, of my writer friends were writing stories as young as...
View ArticleKeepers of the Lies
“Necrophilia includes the desire of certain people to control others—to make them controllable, to foster their dependency, to discourage their capacity to think for themselves, to diminish their...
View ArticlePatrick Reed’s Bitter Family Feud
When Patrick Reed slipped into that green jacket in Augusta on Sunday, his parents, Bill and Jeannette Reed, were not in attendance. Neither was his sister Hannah, when Reed, 27, won his first major...
View ArticleGrace: An Act of Redemption
Almost every week since the book Karly Sheehan was published, I receive emails or notes from readers. Some are from people who knew Karly’s mother.Some are from those who knew her dad. But the vast...
View ArticlePrayers of a Decade
“I have been in Sorrow’s kitchen and licked out all the pots. Then I have stood on the peaky mountain wrapped in rainbows, with a harp and sword in my hands.” ~ Zora Neale Hurston There was a time when...
View ArticleWhat Remains
It barely made headlines, what with all the political corruption underway between the Executive and Legislative branches. But it did warrant at least space in some newspapers as we closed out 2020...
View ArticleThe Daily Reproachment of Being a Female
He couldn’t have been older than twelve, a handsome boy with a narrow jaw and big brown eyes. All decked out in team colors, grey and blue, he had obviously just come from a soccer practice or game....
View ArticleRemembering Karly
I think of her almost daily. Certainly every time I read a story about another child abuse death. There have been so many since Karly Sheehan was beaten to death in June, 2005. I can’t help but...
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