American Pioneer

     It has been a couple of years but I am back in  Chesterfield Inlet  for Christmas.  We often don't choose the place we are, som...

      Eighteen years. Gone. It has been a lifetime since I saw my children - eighteen years today since I both saw them togethe...

            This is Japan.  

 To those that celebrate, happy thanksgiving. In Minnesota, @analienatedfather posted in his blog about the alienation of his ch...

    Recently, a fan of my work asked "why are you not writing?'  I am writing - but you can't see it. What the fan...

         In a recent conversation with a "first fan" (might even have been the first, first fan) they were talking about the d...

    I had a friend pass away late last year. He was someone who worked tirelessly in the community, and he certainly helped me. I joined ...

        It is not that I haven't written, it is that I haven't written what I have written about.         In the professional wo...

                   On November 1, 2022,  Chicken Soup for the Soul   released their book in their series, My Wonderful Wacky Family . Con...

  Chicken Soup for the Soul  have released,  Lessons Learned From My Cat.  It includes my story of how a cat-detesting  guy from Austral...

  On February 14, 2023,   Chicken Soup for the Soul  will release the next book in their series,  Lessons Learned From My Cat.  It inclu...

     Eighteen years ago, at about this time, I sat in the departure lounge of Qantas Airlines Brisbane, Australia, holding my youngest d...

    On the last Friday before Christmas, I shut down my computer, left the pager on the desk, turned the "out of office" on an...

                   On November 1, 2022,  Chicken Soup for the Soul will release the next book in their series, My Wonderful Wacky Family...

        In 2009 I started working on a second major body of work. That piece was a factional account of global sporting event.  The work...

 New. News. News. News. But I can't tell you. Not till November 1. Then, I can tell you the news. But you will be second to know.

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

          I had not recognized that I had not written in the calendar year of 2022 as yet.      I had not known that I had not...

     In September 2021, Blizzard Entertainment released Diablo 2: Resurrection . This was a game that a buddy introduced me to in ab...

  Welcome, my child.  A little girl. ...and once again, the Bourgeois family has provided the Madden family with another lost link.