American Pioneer

  Once again, the return to the Arctic begins at Chesterfield Inlet.   Merry Christmas, Chickybabes.

  Today's the day.   Today is the day that I have now not seen my daughter Sarah, for more than half of her life.   I was aske...

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

  Happy birthday Chickybabe.   Today, my youngest Daughter turns 24. The last time I saw her was almost 12 years ago. Doing the m...

  It was announced in September 2019 of a new web site that was coming.   Since 2007, I have maintained a writing presence on the w...

  Vale, Cliff Bourgeois.   After three tours of duty in Viet Nam, Cliff finally succumbed to Agent Orange at 79 years of age.   A ...

  A new website is coming.   After many years, an upgrade of grantmadden.com is coming. The good people at Go Daddy have assisted m...

  First contact has arrived from the Immigration Department.   February 2020.   Set your travel plans accordingly..

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

  When is a writer, not writing?   When they're running around after other people?   When they are transporting patients who fai...

When is a writer, writing? When they're not publishing? When they're not writing? For several weeks - actually since Ma...

  I write.   I write about my children, about Parental Alienation, about the unfairness in the post divorce world towards Fathers. B...

  Some time ago, probably months, I had a Dear Old Friend write of their current relationship.   "They won't leave me....

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

  Memorial Day weekend in the United States is my favorite weekend of the year.   It's not the Monaco Grand Prix .   It...

  Happy birthday Chickybabe.   Today, my eldest daughter, turns 30.   When I was 30, I was already separated, on the cusp of div...

  Some years ago, I read of Hollywood actresses that worked in dinners between films.  Even one of my favorite actors,  Bruce Willis ...

  It is the early hours of Easter Sunday morning. The sun has just risen, the light is still soft across the county, and I am worki...

  A second gut wrenching week.   How many boys have been potentially interfered with, when you discover that one boy has been interfer...

  It finally happened.   I was told to go back to my own country.   As a child I remember my grandfather, in particular, referri...