2025

Hello Friends, As you may know by now, Universal Truth is out in the universe now. I am so proud of this book, of this series, of the whole thing. I am now officially halfway through the series. Well, I’m halfway through the fifth book in the series, but the world has the first three. It is really like an out-of-body experience every day. With The Austen Chronicles, I’ve done my best to write a love letter to Jane Austen, while creating my own stories. If I didn’t think I wa

Hello Friends.  Forgive me if I’ve told this story before, but it is sort of worth telling again. When I told Lea that I had been...

Hello Friends, In my younger, and more vulnerable years, I was given a book that I’ve been turning over in my mind ever since. Like most...

Hello Friends, The late, great, Floridian poet said, “ The waiting is the hardest part .” For real, Mr. Petty. I feel you, sir. Waiting...

Happy Summer Solstice, friends. Where I live, it has been summer for a while, so the “first day of summer” is just a day on the calendar....

Hello Friends,  My day job, as a Dean, consists of finding ways to grow my program while putting out fires in the day-to-day running of...

Hello friends,   Can you believe it's April? It seems like it should be October by now, doesn’t it? I think part of my problem with the...

Hello friends. While I write this, spring has not yet sprung, we are still a few days away from making it official, but it is March and...

Greetings from Snowy Michigan. I’ve capitalized the S in snowy as I firmly believe Snowy Michigan is a real, solid place and thus worthy...

Hello friends. Happy New Year to you. I hope you have found a way to focus on something good. As I said last year, in my January essay, I...