Summer 2023 — The churches rallied round Their great white savior. They loved his lies, They loved his hate. For White makes right And America great Again. But what they never saw Was the long arm of the law, And the flaming dickens In all those chickens Coming home to roost.

A limping trope of a dying era — I picked this Australian mini-series because of the promise of its title. A woman’s misadventures in the scam-laden wellness industry would make a timely, potentially hilarious story. But I was disappointed. Here she is again The foibles of “wellness” are not the focus of the story at all. Instead, we are treated to a…

It’s not just about rape culture — A gripping story This Belgian drama (dubbed into English) had me hooked from the very first scene. It involved a toilet, a long-buried secret rising from the grave, and blackmail. …

The con and the secret — The Con Evangelicals eat their young. Join any evangelical community with an observant eye and you will notice a divide. The middle-aged and elderly are generally a settled group, indistinguishable from the rest of their local community — they have families, jobs, homes, pets, and comfortable routines. The youth and young adults…

How we must open our eyes and change our strategy to fight the Bully Mafia — I used to think bullying was about schoolboys, i.e., not my problem. It wasn’t until I learned that this was an adult thing too, that it hit me. I have been bullied — badly. That was the name for what I experienced. Furthermore, I think we have vastly underestimated how…

I graduated magna cum laude in 1981 but without AA I would never have had that chance — In the Spring of 1977, I went with my parents to visit James Madison University in Harrisonburg, VA. A student volunteer gave us a tour. With its beautiful bluestone and ivy campus nestled in the scenic Shenandoah Valley, we loved it. Our guide then told us that loving it was…

Connect with the people most stories ignore — The Fiction Highway We all know the kind of stories that people flock to. We seek fiction that fulfills our cravings for love, excitement, and adventure. It’s not surprising that most fiction faithfully responds to these commonly-held desires. Cruise any bookstore or movie collection and all our old friends are there — romance…

God’s gaslighting — It’s all your fault! And Jesus answered them, “Truly, I say to you, if you have faith and do not doubt, you will not only do what has been done to the fig tree, but even if you say to this mountain, ‘Be taken up and thrown into the sea,’ it will happen. And…

Free your writing from the cliche of tragedy — You love me Hello fiction writers! I would introduce myself but there’s no need. Because whether you write novels, short stories, plays, screenplays, or series, you already know me. …