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I’m excited to learn that an essay I wrote about discovering the man responsible for the lives of everyone on my father’s side of the family for the last 100 years will soon be published by a prestigious journal. Southeast Missouri State University Press Dear James Wells, We are pleased to tell you that we’d […]

Some of the most remarkable and valid data contradicting what the US government told us and the media about the circumstances of my father’s death came from former Air America personnel & the Air America archives. The last few days, I was at another Air America reunion in Dayton, Ohio, not to collect more data […]

There were so many literary events happening in and near Lexington yesterday afternoon. I was fortunate enough to be scheduled to read again at the Luigart Café, a terrific venue for music, poetry, and prose. I read prose poetry and an essay piece inspired by my father’s letters and archival and field research. I’m thinking […]

Interestingly, the last two novels I read were fictional stories about how the dead can still speak to us. This Mother’s Day, I think about how the letters from my father and a note from my mother, discovered after their deaths, served as vital answers to questions not yet asked by anyone, which, after many […]

I picked a great night to read for the first time at Poetry at the /’tābəl/. I read a draft of a free-verse poem of protest, inspired in part by my investigative memoir, Because, to be published June 2025. Elizabeth Peck and Jay McCoy were great hosts for a memorable evening with feature poets Katerina […]

I was fortunate to be able to read at EKU’s BGWS Zoom Open-mic yesterday. I read an excerpt from my investigative memoir Because. It was a little tribute to the former Air America pilots I interviewed in 2017 and that are leaving us at what I regard to be an alarming rate. I read at […]

Whistleblowers often leave clues of the actual causes of their deaths with loved ones before they die. https://abcnews4.com/news/local/if-anything-happens-its-not-suicide-boeing-whistleblowers-prediction-before-death-south-carolina-abc-news-4-2024#

Sad to say, we have to add another person to the growing list of whistleblowers who have died or disappeared under mysterious circumstances. https://www.reuters.com/world/us/boeing-whistleblower-found-dead-apparent-suicide-2024-03-12/

Now that I’ve submitted a final draft for my investigative memoir ‘Because,’ I’m working on an index for it. Although I’ve never had to create an index for a book, I figured I was more qualified than anyone else to make one. After spending a few hours investigating the best ways to do it in […]