A Writer’s Blog

  • Twisting History for Fun and Profit — maybe?

    Many people that go to movies worldwide read nothing about history let alone read books and they walk away from seeing movies believing this is how it really was. Read more

  • Greed is Universal – a human trait

    Someone had stolen her Social Security number when she was age 9 and set up false identities and more than 42 accounts. All of them had defaulted to the tune of $1.5 million dollars. Read more

  • Originally posted on The Soulful Veteran's Blog: According to Vietnam: Looking Back at the Facts: “About 5,000 men assigned to Vietnam deserted and just 249 of those deserted while in Vietnam.” Then there were crimes other than rape. Near the end of my 1996 combat tour, the armorer of our gun company was caught selling… Read more

  • Originally posted on The Soulful Veteran's Blog: “Rape and the mutilation of women’s bodies are evidently part of the usual military fare in war. During the Vietnam war, rape was in fact an all too common occurrence …” Source: Karen Stuldreher, Political Science Department, University of Washington, Seattle For example: “An August 1967 atrocity in… Read more

  • Originally posted on The Soulful Veteran's Blog: I started writing my next novel “Running With the Enemy” in 1981 as a memoir of an American Marine serving in Vietnam in 1966. In 1981, I was working toward an MFA in 20th century American literature/writing at Cal Poly Pomona where I earned a teaching credential in… Read more

  • From Carly Rae Jepsen’s “Call Me Maybe” to God’s chosen

    About 1% of the US population is gay while there are more than 310 million Americans and 75% are fat and a third of those fat people are obese—that’s more than 232 million people. Read more