I recently took a visiting friend to the Greenville Avenue location of Desperados (Michael Grant’s favorite Mexican Food restaurant; Uno y Dos). Had another fantastic meal.  Started with a top-shelf margarita and Desperado Tacos – Beef and finished with “Deep Fried Latte”.  That’s right, Deep Fried Latte!  It is the name of a dessert concocted [...]

New Technology is the proverbial “Jones” as in keeping up with the Jones’. Just in the last six decades we’ve gone from radio to black & white analog TV to color HDTV; from 78rpm, 45rpm, and LP records to MP3; from the dusty Gutenberg Bible to Jamaica Moon on Kindle.  It remains to be seen [...]

The 4th of July has come and gone, summer will fly by, Labor Day will be here too soon, followed by Halloween.  Now no one wants to hurry summer, but since mid-November will be here before we know it I’m putting the finishing touches on Michael Grant and Associates latest Black Book Investigation:  And… Never [...]

I guess doing something twice creates or establishes a tradition.  Honoring this tradition Solana D’Lamant has once again coined interview questions for me to answer, this time for Judas Oracle.  The ‘old’ interview (for Jamaica Moon) will remain in place on the ‘Author’ page.  This and subsequent interviews (and the like) will appear on the [...]

On the Use of “Big” Words Often wordsmiths, (my sister refers to me as a wordsculptor), those regular users of words who have acquired a varied and mature vocabulary come under fire for the use of certain words that may not be in ‘regular’ use in the vulgate of the vulgus. (Vulgate and vulgus, two [...]

I find it hard to accept that the glorious defense of our country and its values of liberty and freedom, demonstrated by servicemen, on June 6, 1944 passed with so little fanfare or remembrance on this 66th anniversary.  On the beaches of France those 66 six years ago, thousands of our country’s young men, whose [...]

Love of Law Enforcement Runs in the Family From and early age I knew my father respected law men.  Though he was aware of the dangers I would face he was proud that I chose to be a Dallas Police Officer.  In fact, since I was not yet twenty-one, when I joined the DPD, he [...]

Some of the ‘millions’ of readers and viewers of this website have noticed some changes recently.  We had at first thought we would put up an ‘under construction’ sign but decided the changes would not take that long.  While the elements of the website remain the same, the process for posting and displaying them has [...]

a letter to a fellow writer… Normal vs Paranormal & Universal Truths I woke up this morning thinking about character conundrums and flashed on one of the points I told you I had made to the ‘students’ I talked to… that of ‘the universe is both infinite and finite; it contains only what you can [...]

The Six Fidelities of Poesie: expression, idea, voice, style, original intent and process are not the six principles of how to write a poem or the six essential elements of a poem, but rather six principles of how and why we write poetry. — Six Fidelities of Poesie Author’s Note: Caveat on Quoting Oscar Wilde. [...]