Curious Clouds: Cumulus or Camouflage?
Curious cloud formations feature in my Other Worldly series, beginning with the first novel, Alienable Rights. In particular, saucer-shaped clouds, wherein protagonist Rowan Layne quips about how they must be an alien cloaking device, a՛ la Klingon, used to camouflage UFOs. Her CIA ex-boyfriend also jokingly tells her those clouds are the result of a […]
Flaming Ignorance: Males Claiming Witch Hunts
The pathetic cry of “witch hunt!” from easily threatened egomaniacal males like that of the former guy and his sanctimonious cohorts in crime is laughable. As well as outrageously, flamingly ignorant. So much of what this sniveling passel of right-wing wimps claims as persecution these days is ridiculous, but this constant bleating about witch hunts […]
Roswell 1947: Coincidental Crash or Insipid Subterfuge?
Today, July 8, is the date of the infamous 1947 incident in Roswell, New Mexico. During a severe thunderstorm, a crash occurred at a ranch. That much is undisputed. All other elements of this event remain questionable, despite the government attempting to mark it as “case closed” fifty years later in 1997. Which brings to […]
Were We Always a Land Of Me, Not You?
The past four years it’s been almost painful to look at an American flag, much less proudly fly one on the Fourth of July. That beloved iconic image has been heinously commandeered by those who hold a treasonous Confederate flag of racist losers in equal regard. Not to mention flags with their dear demented leader’s […]
Forced Flag Allegiance is Not Constitutional
The oath taken by federal government officials, the same I once took as a lawyer for the Department of Defense, is about upholding the Constitution. It does not include allegiance to a flag. National flags merely represent or symbolize a country. Flags are neither foundation nor substance of what makes a nation, though there is […]
UFOs: Proof is in the Eyewitness
After the recent airing of Pentagon video footage of UFOs obtained by military aviators, there’s been a bit of shaky-ground back-peddling—from our federal government. Gee, what a surprise. And an eye-rolling disappointment. To wit, no one wants to go out on a limb and call them UFOs, despite that’s precisely what they are. UFO, after […]
When Religion is Controlling Not Charitable
The reasoning—though it may be anything but reasonable—behind granting US churches tax-exempt status derives from an attempt to prevent government involvement with religion per the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment. What happens when religion, some sects masquerading as spiritually devout in pursuit of all-mighty greed, becomes invasively and pervasively involved with government in an […]
Romance for the Post-Menopausal Protagonist
When I began drafting Alienable Rights, first novel of the Other Worldly series, writing romance was the farthest thing from my mind. My over-fifty protagonist Rowan Layne was in a relationship with a younger man, but it wasn’t a good one. She herself didn’t fully realize how wrong it was at the time, and not […]
Emoji Texting and Other Plot Twists
Emoji are a source of humor in my Other Worldly series because of Rowan Layne’s octogenarian mom’s enthusiastic use of them while phone texting. In Alienable Rights, Rowan is even accused of sending secret coded messages to aliens via strings of emoji while texting with her mother. Emoji is defined as a small digital image […]
Do Ya Think UFOs Might Have Pilots?
In Feeling Alienated, second book in my Other Worldly series, protagonist Rowan Layne goes off on the absurdity of government officials willing to discuss UFOs, but not the reality that a living entity, as in an alien, might be piloting them. In my novel, I was referring to an actual $22 million US government program […]