In 2009 one of my teenage daughters brought home a mutt-puppy.  My first reaction was “No, we can’t keep him.  Take him back.”  We already had two dogs and I didn’t like getting surprised by her obvious ploy to “show, not tell.”  Fifteen minutes later, I was hooked.  He had a small color marking on his head […]

This post will likely turn away a few potential readers, but I’m doing it anyway. Frankly, the readers that won’t like it are ones the would hate the book anyway due to its theme.  I wrote Canine Plague with more than the thought of spinning a tall tale. I had some messages I wanted to communicate […]

We like to think that morals are black and white, but in reality they aren’t. According to the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy, moral relativism is defined as: “The view that moral judgments are true or false only relative to some particular standpoint (for instance, that of a culture or a historical period) and that no standpoint […]

It’s Not Just a Tall Tale I’ve written a lot.  Mostly technical documents and political commentary, but I never considered writing fiction until it occurred to me that I could make a better case for my passions as a citizen of the earth by making it fun to read.  If you read my book, you’ll […]