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Our own understanding of our importance is one of our most defining tragic flaws because it first gives us a false sense of overarching accountability. What we feel we are accountable or responsible for is our source of pride. This pride has a tendency to grow, allowing us to believe that our initial importance is [...]
Vonnegut probably would have said that people are Mistake Machines. We all make mistakes, and we are as prolific and proficient at making them as we are at making anything else we have ever made. He also may have said that the best Mistake Machines of all are also fantastic Apology Machines because, while we [...]
So that I better understand the issues presented, from what I gather, the popular consensus is that doing things the way we’ve always done them is more important than doing what is right. Can this be correct? We are self-chained to an ignorant, egotistical pride in believing that we cannot agree with any part of [...]
Looks like some of us will have to hunker down in the interest of the greater good for a while. So many of my friends and so many people, in general, are being affected in ways we haven't been forced to have to consider before now. I thought some of you might need a distraction, and [...]
Politics are a scam to get you to use plural pronouns when describing your affiliation to one of the two main political parties. We, us, they, them; if you’re an average American, you’re not really on either of those teams, you can’t afford to be. Trust that any benefit of their triumphs which extends to [...]
El Camino Blue Audiobook now available on iTunes as well. Follow this link:
https://books.apple.com/us/audiobook/el-camino-blue-unabridged/id1498623399
My first novel, El Camino Blue, is now available in audiobook format on Audible.
Check out the audio clip in the video here.
This is the first time any of my work has been available in audio. I’m excited to hear what all of you think. I think the producer and narrator,Nikola Muckajev, did an incredible job capturing the heart and tone of story. I hope you all love it. Listen to a quick sample from the first chapter in the preview video. There is a longer audio clip at the link “Get the El Camino Blue Audiobook Now” button.
El Camino Blue was originally written as a journal that was kept daily through the last four months of high school. A few years later, at the age of twenty-two, I picked it back up and rewrote the sixty…
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I’m waiting for that record scratch moment when something so insane and horrible happens that the whole country stops and goes “OK, wait, this is not cool!” and we can all agree on a more reasonable compromise for the better. It may be too late. We may be past our ability to be affected as [...]
