American Pioneer

 2025 and the new year has begun. I recieved a telephone call about ten days ago which may require consideration to return to Aus...

    2022 has been a year, already of upheaval. This also includes the reassignment of my professional life.     After sixteen ye...

  Uggh. California is about to go back into lockdown as the Covid 19 virus continues to ransack the State. Not all Counties will...

   Everyone who was alive, knows where they were on this day in 2001. It ranks higher than the Kennedy Assassination, Man on the Moon ,...

  Second half.  As the California "stay at home" orders continue to escalate with the returning surge of Covid-19, the desire to ...

   One hundred and forty seven days ago I went into isolation with the California lockdown. That's five months. The "need...

  Citizenship!   The USINS has announced that their offices are reopening, and my citizenship ceremony has been scheduled fo...

  40 days and 40nights have passed since I personally went into isolation due to the pandemic.   Accomplishments? Not a lot, ot...

  California, during the pandemic, fells like 1974.   In 1974, my parents were living in the married quarters of the local army base...

                  It is twelve years today since I last saw my youngest daughter, Sarah. At the time, she was twelve years and ...

  Not going to be a happy end of year.   The Path to Citizenship started today with the submission of an application and the payment...

  There is nothing That I am enjoying, about caring for an elderly parent.   There is little that I am, personally, accomplishing, e...

  Another Saturday night at home.   Again.   My eye is sore. My foot is bleeding from a fall. My glasses are bent.   Life is (al...

  All writers abhor going home.   For some, it's a case of not having achieved enough. For others, it's a case of facing ...

Photoshoot.

Recall I said that it wasn't all bad after I submitted a feature article, the first in three years? Look for the article to be pub...

Not all bad things have evolved from this period. Yesterday I was able to submit a feature article, the first such submission in almo...

  At 16:45 Friday 30 March 2018,  Good Friday the world changed.   The much maligned opportunity to acquire quality writing time cam...

Earlier this week I was in San Francisco, a city I first visited in the 20th Century.  Since then, I have made a number of return journe...

At this time in December,  most people look back on their accomplishments and make resolutions for the next year As a writer, 2017 ...