Muck Fires, Censorship, and Crazy Times

Muck Fires, Censorship, and Crazy Times

Muck Fires I’ll take the firestorm over the Muck any day. When it comes to fire classifications, you can see, hear, and feel the onset of a raging firestorm. Smoke billows through the air; the coal-hot wood snaps and cracks; wind in the flames hiss; and the heat—it...

The Fulani Herdsman Angel

Photo by Jim Richter on Pexels.com The Angel—a Fulani Herdsman. We’d had a rough second week—Steve tangled with malaria, all four of us had dysentery from eating one-week-old, unrefrigerated meat, and the nights were growing colder, making our outdoor bucket baths...

Insecurities, End Times, and Viruses

This is a blog about my insecurities, the end times, and viruses. Controversial Yep, in the following pages, I will attempt to pull the three random topics together so that the fire that burns at my heart will simmer down. Some of this is controversial and I cannot...
Why This Novel Now?

Why This Novel Now?

That is the view from my house in Albuquerque. The History I grew up in a small town in the big, loving heart of Texas. We didn’t lock our doors, went to church on holidays, and knew the mailman and the ice-cream truck driver by name. Mine was a charmed life—one I...