The old truck purred as we rambled down the country road. “Do you want to pick the music Jasper?” Tobias asked. “You sure you want me to pick?” “Does it have to be country?” “Don’t sound so sad I heard you singing along back in the hills.” “Cause it was…

Consistency is key to making it as a writer — I know for many of you writing a thousand words a day is nothing. In fact, for a professional writer it should be a relatively easy task. But, articles about writing are not meant for the veterans of the trade. Besides, a professional writer would know better than to get…

It was a rainy day, the day that I met her. I remember the raindrops making their way down the shop windows as I walked along the sidewalk. I clutched my collar, holding it close to keep the precipitation out, and to keep the last vestiges of warmth inside my…

“Let’s go. Let’s go. Let’s go,” I said as I waited out front in the car. “I’m coming,” Jen said. I doubted it though. Jen was always late. “Toss your stuff in. I want to beat the traffic.” “Relax, we have plenty of time.” “We had plenty of time. I…

I was meeting my wife at the house. It was the perfect one, at least what we saw of it online. It was older, and it had all of the character we’d been looking for. The last three houses we’d seen were in cookie cutter, new construction subdivisions and neither…

We walked the same barren roads we’d been walking for years. The world still carried the dull gray tones from the war. It touched everything around us. Even the trees bore the scars of a more violent time. Our boots crunched on the gravel path on the outskirts of the…

Life’s tough in the writing trade — Have you ever written something and it just tanks? I have. It happened just the other day. I wrote something and I don’t think a single person read it. Now, you can start making excuses to start feeling better. You can say it was just weird timing. It’s just an…

In a mostly empty boxing gym on the outskirts of Detroit was where most people saw him for the first time. For some reason, wherever he went Patrick “The Saint” O’Callahan caused a stir. But this was especially true in boxing gyms. Some said it was his size. Some said…

Three years later — This March marks three years since Covid shut down the country as the world tried to deal with the virus. I had read about the trouble China was having with the virus. I never thought it would be like this. I thought it would be like H1N1. I’d hear about…