Hate and fear are easy, but they solve nothing — I don’t hate Trump supporters. I wish I could. It sure would be easier than this awful swirl of emotions I cannot even put into a word. I wish you could see what I see, what I’ve seen the past five years, what I see now. …

We live in record-breaking times, and doesn’t everybody want to tell you that. …

A reality check, whether you support him or not — In the moment, it’s hard to see what’s real and what isn’t. “Gaslighting” does that to you. Sometimes the best remedy is to revisit history to regain our bearings, in this case, to remind ourselves what Donald J. Trump really believes about elections. The presidential elections in 2016 and 2020…

But I learned nothing from history class — Martin Niemöller was a national conservative, a Protestant pastor, who welcomed Adolf Hitler’s assumption of power. He thought he was part of a national revival. He learned how wrong he was, and how insidious the process towards hell. He wrote an oft cited poem about what happened next which you…

Copyright basics every author should know — There’s a saying among writers that there is nothing new, all writing is just a spinoff from an earlier story, or idea, or writing, and there is some truth to that. Writers often incorporate not only a feel of previously created work, but specific reference to them. The characters in…

3 steps we can take to foster American unity — Some days it seems Americans are more divided than ever, with no hope of coming together as a united nation on any topic. …

Giving yourself a break from tracking your story stats — I love writing. I always have. I have ideas for books, article, stories, spewing out of my head practically 24/7. But something happened when I started posting stories online. When I started my first blog I had access to some rudimentary analytics that showed me how many people were reading…

How to customize your career to match your lifestyle — For me, it started with the invention of the salad bar, the option to choose what I wanted, and pass on things I didn’t. I was probably 12 years old the first time I encountered a salad bar at a church conference. Up until then, my mom made salad with…

Why you need to follow what’s going on with the gig economy — You may not have heard about AB5 yet, a little California law that came into operation on January 1, 2020, but you’ll pay attention when it destroys that convenient ability to summon a car and driver at a moment’s notice via those handy Uber and Lyft ridesharing apps. Here in…