My wife and I were talking about great funny lines in songs and landed on “The Perfect Country and Western Song” by David Allan Coe.  After a glass of wine, we came up with the first line in this short story. The rest is my thriller mind at work!   The First Time I Saw […]

Last night, after watching the news, I had a few thoughts…   It lurks in the invisible, striking without care, And infects with ferocity, the unaware. It takes, not gives and crushes our hearts, And forces everyone to live apart. But it underestimated our will, our spirit and fight, And our unlimited capacity to care […]

I’ve just lost one of the greatest people I’ve ever known…and I know just what I’m going to do… I believe in good and evil. That’s clear if you’ve read any of my novels. But based on my broad sample of people while travelling around the world, including Africa, South America, Europe, Asia, and across […]

It seems that sometimes in our lives inspiration and great joy come from the most unlikely places. Recently, I had a chance to attend a Stanley Cup Playoff game at the PPG Arena in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. But this blog is not about the Penguins. After being on the road for most of the week, I […]