DartScape

As a student of the bible as well as history I am often reading someone’s interpretation of something that was written many years ago. Let’s face it, what was written in the colonies back in 1637 might be difficult for us in the year 2023 to fully grasp. We have to relate it to what […]

What if your automobile mechanic operated like medical care? Hmm…I am imagining several possible situations…. Mechanic: Sir, your battery is weak. So we duct taped a second battery to the outside of your front fender and ran wires to your engine. Customer: What? Can’t you fix the battery? Mechanic: No, this is our best option. […]

Happy to report that my 70,000 word crime novel, Deadly Profit, is finished. In fact, I finished it seven or eight times. And then edited it several times and finished it again! Forty-three chapters, over seventy scenes. It is about a young, tech savvy former CIA Black Ops agent working as a private investigator under […]

I currently live in a very small, isolated town in Florida that is about two hours from the nearest real city. Driving here is more of a challenge for me than when I drove through Miami traffic. Sure, there were the occasional gun shots and fender benders in Miami, but the patterns were predictable, and […]

Who are we? What is our personality? What is our core identity? I’ve been thinking again. Always a risk with me. For whatever reason, I am always striving to decrease my faults and increase my better qualities. I grew up poor with loving but alcoholic parents, with my father dying when I was eight. I […]

Writing experts tout the importance of writing a synopsis for your novel. A synopsis consists of taking your entire 60K to 100K or more novel and boiling it down to 500 to 2,000 words. A short summary of what happens in your book. I have just finished my fourth draft of my crime novel, Deadly […]

What the holy living beaver hell has happened to Oreo cookies!?  I have not purchased Oreos in some time. Maybe years. That is because I am a fat man trying to not be fatter. I have been trying to lose thirty pounds for the last thirty years. Anyway, once in a blue full May moon […]

For twenty-five years I drove the same route to and from work, a 12.4 mile distance that often took about 45 minutes but at times could take over two hours.  The route included surface streets, turnpikes and interstates and traveled through several different neighborhoods.  The neighborhood driving patterns varied depending upon the people and culture […]