November 25, 2025

While busy writing my book, The Children of Raven’s Reach, I took a moment to check on the status of the turkey the president was slated to pardon. He’s pardoned quite a few people already, and some of them could be classified as turkeys. Yet he has not quite beat out the last president who…

October 21, 2025

I’m going to talk about dead words. Words lying on their backs? No. A Lexicographer would say dead words are obsolete words, words that have passed out of usage. An English professor I used to have said dead words are words that are overused and don’t give the reader a clear picture. “He went to…

October 14, 2025

Well, you’ve got your Secret Agent Man, Secret Life of Walter Mitty, The Secret Garden, Secret Squirrel, and a host of other secret movies, cartoons, books, and TV programs as well as Victoria’s Secret. What’s your secret? We all have secrets and it’s intriguing to hear somebody has a secret, but SHHHHH! Don’t you tell…