Stories

I wrote the following post on Jan 11, 2021–five days after the January 6th assault on the Capitol. Like many Americans, I had watched in disbelief as what was previously unthinkable happened. I wasn’t surprised. I believed that the potential for violence existed; however, I had no idea that it would involve an assault on the Capitol itself. As I reread this post, one sentence stood out: I don’t believe Mr. Trump is finished, nor are the extremists who follow him. When I wrote the post, I meant that I feared more violence was coming before Joe Biden’s inauguration. Thankfully, …

We’re less than two weeks away from the first anniversary of the January 6th insurrection. I thought it would be interesting to repost the articles I wrote during the fall of 2020 up through January of ’21 with some commentary reflecting on this past year and the aftermath of the assault on the Capitol. I’ve edited the original post for space, but the content is not affected. My reflections follow the original post. ORIGINAL POST: So, how did a nice evangelical boy who’s voted straight Republican since 1976 end up becoming an independent who will vote for Joe Biden (and …

How long, Lord, must I call for help, but you do not listen? Or cry out to you, “Violence!” but you do not save? 3 Why do you make me look at injustice? Why do you tolerate wrongdoing? Destruction and violence are before me; there is strife, and conflict abounds. 4 Therefore the law is paralyzed, and justice never prevails. The wicked hem in the righteous, so that justice is perverted. (Habakkuk 1:2-4, NIV) When I reflect on the events of 2021 in the United States, I confess I am perplexed. If you followed my blog in the months up to the presidential election of 2020, you’ll …

As a fiction writer, I deal in what if questions. That’s how I build my stories. I start with “What if…” then fill in the blank.  Facebook’s crash the other day had me thinking “What if….”  What if the crash were catastrophic and the data irretrievable?  Here’s the deal. Back in the olden days we stayed in touch by means of phone calls, letters, Christmas cards (remember those?), stuff like that.  When e-mail came along, we thought we were in heaven. Now we could write letters and have them delivered instantly. No need to wait for a sluggish postal service. Then came …