Tyrannical Timeline: A SCOTUS Backstory
In 2014, I published a nonfiction tome, Raising Questions: Daring to Denounce the Religious Right to Defend Our Civil Rights, in which I pitted the Bill of Rights of our Constitution against the Ten Commandments and tenets of the Catholic Church. The chapter on voting rights is prefaced with a quote from Eleanor Roosevelt: The […]
Heinous is the Hubris of Hateful Men Playing God
In the opening scene of my upcoming Alien Sensation, protagonist Rowan Layne is attacked by a misogynist reporter from Fox News in Salem, Massachusetts, followed by a pistol-packing religious zealot proclaiming her to be an abomination and a whore. After which she addresses the reporter: “When you file today’s story, do try to refrain from […]
Mother of All Wars Against Women
I recently posted about minor censorship issues occurring when I was a newspaper columnist in rural central Nevada. But I left out one instance of curious copy editing; a headline eschewed in my very last column. The media powers didn’t cotton to my observation that Supreme Court integrity was irrevocably eroded. That column was published […]
Avoiding Social Media Outcome Obsession
This time known to me as author’s limbo can be tricky. Awaiting the return of a manuscript from my editor while starting on the next story in my Other Worldly series, my head immersed in a new challenge with new secondary characters and outer space adventures. You’d think I’d be used to it, as this […]
Going Where the Writing Road Beckons
This week marks ten years in Nevada. My perspective has changed greatly since 2012, in large part due to where I resided for the first seven. I was fortunate enough to have been a local newspaper columnist for the final three years of a soul-stifling existence in Lyon County, and in many ways this blog […]
Planetary Plague: Ludicrous Lack of Self-Awareness
Today is Earth Day. I’d planned to write about it and myriad environmental issues addressed in my Other Worldly novels. But I recently attended a homeowner’s association board meeting in my over-55 community and realized what a microcosm it is of everything currently happening in greater (or not so great) society. One might even call […]
Weaker Sex? Speak For Yourself
Feminist food for thought on this Good Friday as observed by Christians: One female member of Congress is apparently neither a feminist nor the devout Christian she claims to be. There is scant that is good about what she represents, including her recent assertion that women are the weaker sex, conveniently based on a biblical […]
Supreme Court, Not Aliens, Aims to Destroy Earth
On April 6, the not-so-Supreme Court issued a 5-4 decision that weakens protections provided by the Clean Water Act, otherwise known as the Federal Water Pollution Control Act. Perhaps these five foul-play justices think this means they’re supposed to perpetuate, as opposed to prevent, pollution, but who can tell? Because these fascist five issued this […]
Humans Playing the Fool
April Fool’s Day, or April 1 on the calendar, plays a role in my Other Worldly novels because it’s post-middle-aged protagonist Rowan Layne’s birthday. I couldn’t have her be born on just any old day. Fact is, April Fool’s Day, rife with pranks, is one of the most widely recognized non-religious holidays in the Western […]
No Republican Einsteins: Infinite Stupidity on Display
“Only two things are infinite. The universe and human stupidity, and I’m not sure about the former.” So said Albert Einstein, born March 14, 1879. That date was ten days ago, therefore I’m late with this post, but these days for me, time is relative. I know, a groan-worthy pun. But has anyone else had […]