I've been hemming and hawing about this post for a few days. It's April 18, 2026 and I just noticed the prominent AI sticker at the top of this site. I didn't sit down to write about it but I think I must. A tracking blue box is square around the words I'm writing. It grows with every return key I hit and is punctuated by a blue diamond encouraging me to use AI to write this blog. AI? Really? Since when is letting a machine to what should be natural a good thing? My brother i

It's March 20, 2026 and I just finished the third draft of my most recent novel. My goal was to finish this phase in two weeks. It took three days. I guess I was slightly obsessed. Writing takes many forms (ex, see blog post!). I've been ensconsed with Kingdom Writers Hollywood as a screenwriter for a couple years now and every time I'm asked what I'm working on, I say, "My novel." I justify it by saying I'll adapt it into a screenplay, and I will. Lying to that group of arti

I've been thinking about atheism lately. Do you know how much you have to ignore to believe there is no God? The tree in the front yard, the grass, the ground under the grass, gravity, the spinning of the Earth, the axis on which it spins, the sun, the moon, the oceans and the tides, stones and boulders and canyons and creeks, the rivers and lakes and streams and forests, deserts and mountains and valleys and fjords and all the wildlife in them. You have to ignore oxygen and

It's January 8, 2026. The official anniversary of the fires is January 7, but not for me. Me and mine escaped the inferno in the wee hours of the next day, so January 8 is my anniversary. When I was a kid I heard a song called something like "It Never Rains In Southern California." I thought, "Man. How do they live without rain?" Of course it was just a song and the Southland gets plenty of rain in the rainy season. But it's not long before locals start complaining. As in, th

It's December 15, 2025 and Christmas season is in full swing. In the Southland that means clear, sunny skies with temperatures dipping all the way down into the sixties during the day. (It's even colder at night!) Growing up in the Great Pactific Northwest I grew accustomed to wintry white. Not where I lived, in the western GPNW, but on the other side of the mountains. Where my grandparents lived. Snow so thick that sometimes, just sometimes, you couldn't see your hand in fro

I waited to blog this month until after I took part in the No King's March on October 18, 2025. It's October 20, 2025 and some really interesting things happened over the last few days. I've always done my best to live by values that value other people, the ideal that respect and kindness are the true blood of humanity. Powerful doesn't mean strong if that strength is used to subjugate, intimidate and eradicate those different from you. When it comes to group thought and mob

It's a strange sort of thing that getting close to booking a job is a sign of success. What a close - to week I had recently! I...

I've been working like a horse. Not a dog, a horse. Horses are bigger, stronger and have more stamina than dogs and I've been working...

The virus is gone and summer's heating up. It's July 15, 2025. Here in the Southland the Mediterranean heat comes like an old friend...

Walking four or five blocks to the post and back brings winded breathing and droopy eyes. Turning my head is too quick for my vision and...