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One of the best things about getting old is being able to hang on to some of the fondest memories of your youth. At last night’s Poetry at the Table open-mic at the Kenwick Table, I told a story about how a poem about my first car (which I still have) got to be written […]

I’ve already started planning the details of a book tour after releasing my investigative memoir, Because: A CIA Coverup and a Son’s Odyssey to Find the Father He Never Knew, on June 15 (Father’s Day), 2025. Brenda and I plan to travel in a small RV from Florida to Maine next summer and fall. In each […]

Another milestone has been reached! What an incredible journey I have been on, which started when I found my father’s letters 33 years ago.  I’ve incorporated the edits suggested by my copy editor at Milspeak Books, Margaret MacInnis. I am now proofreading my copyedited manuscript Because: A CIA Coverup and a Son’s Odyssey to Find the […]

I didn’t become interested in whistleblowing until I learned from my father’s letters that he was a whistleblower throughout much of his US Army and US State Department career, and he paid dearly for it. I want to remind everyone that today is National Whistleblower Day. 

I’m so glad I attended the Imaginarium Convention in Louisville this weekend, a large conference that appeals to writers of all genres. I attended several great panels and workshops, including those on creative nonfiction, poetry, and promoting and marketing your book. I also got a chance to see old friends and make new ones, talk […]

At my MFA’s (EKU Bluegrass Writers Studio) Alumni open mic night, I read a piece from Because: A CIA Coverup and a Son’s Odyssey to Find the Father He Never Knew (to be released Father’s Day 2025) that illustrates the nonfiction literary craft technique I used throughout my investigative memoir. That technique, used in combination with triangulated […]

Time to celebrate again. I just achieved another significant milestone by meeting the deadline to submit all the blurbs for my investigative memoir to my publisher, Milspeak Books. I sent them yesterday, July 1, which is also the 46th wedding anniversary of my wife Brenda and me. I am thankful to the influential figures who […]

In my investigative memoir Because: A CIA Coverup and a Son’s Odyssey to Find the Father He Never Knew (to be released Father’s Day 2025 by Milspeak Books), I write:  “It’s remarkable how something as trivial as a letter, a ring, and some alcohol can allow a father and son to bridge the gap between 1965 […]

This Father’s Day I’m thinking of the greatest way I can honor my father, a man I barely knew when he was killed in Vietnam in 1965. My investigative memoir, Because: A CIA Coverup and a Son’s Odyssey to Find the Father He Never Knew, will be released on Father’s Day 2025, 365 days from now […]

At yesterday evening’s open mic at the Kenwick Table, I read a piece that ended with a quote from filmmaker, poet, and artist Jonas Mekas: “In the very end, civilizations perish because they listen to their politicians and not to their poets.”