Follow the story of a knife, manufactured in the mid-1700's in England, that travels through a series of owners who steal it, who kill for it, who take it overseas and use it as an instrument of war,... More > who forget about it, who use it as a bargaining chip, who bury it in a tree where it remains for close to a century. Murder, mayhem, and thievery follow the knife as it traverses through the people and times that forged America, and her growing pains, to become the country she is today; a country laced with the fears of tomorrow. Follow the knife into the jaws of jihad and learn of its final destination.< Less
Follow the story of a knife, manufactured in the mid-1700's in England, that travels through a series of owners who steal it, who kill for it, who take it overseas and use it as an instrument of war,... More > who forget about it, who use it as a bargaining chip, who bury it in a tree where it remains for close to a century. Murder, mayhem, and thievery follow the knife as it traverses through the people and times that forged America, and her growing pains, to become the country she is today; a country laced with the fears of tomorrow. Follow the knife into the jaws of jihad and learn of its final destination.< Less
An eclectic mix of short stories and poems. The short stories vary in length right down to the 150 and 60 word ‘challenges’ in writers’ groups, some of the latter requiring exactly... More > that number, no more no less, and written to a given theme. Very good discipline for editing I am told. The poems are of things that took my fancy, sometimes like some of the stories, arriving in those half conscious moments between sleeping and awakening.< Less
An eclectic mix of short stories and poems. The short stories vary in length right down to the 150 and 60 word ‘challenges’ in writers’ groups, some of the latter requiring exactly... More > that number, no more no less, and written to a given theme. Very good discipline for editing I am told. The poems are of things that took my fancy, sometimes like some of the stories, arriving in those half conscious moments between sleeping and awakening.< Less
An eclectic mix of short stories and poems. The short stories vary in length right down to the 150 and 60 word ‘challenges’ in writers’ groups, some of the latter requiring exactly... More > that number, no more no less, and written to a given theme. Very good discipline for editing I am told. The poems are of things that took my fancy, sometimes like some of the stories, arriving in those half conscious moments between sleeping and awakening.< Less
An eclectic mix of short stories and poems. The short stories vary in length right down to the 150 and 60 word ‘challenges’ in writers’ groups, some of the latter requiring exactly... More > that number, no more no less, and written to a given theme. Very good discipline for editing I am told. The poems are of things that took my fancy, sometimes like some of the stories, arriving in those half conscious moments between sleeping and awakening.< Less
Markers & Erasers is a collection of thirty-two poems about my experiences teaching in two Los Angeles public high schools over the course of five years. Throughout the poetry collection, the... More > theme of education evolves from an emphasis on classroom conflict to an emphasis on understanding and reflection. This collection fits into the genre of didactic poetry in that it subtly teaches readers about teaching. I have taken actual events and feelings from the classroom and shared them through a variety of poetry styles. The variance in the visual and lyrical presentations of my poems reflects the diversity of people and experiences one encounters in this profession. The main poetic forms utilized are pataphor, senryu, free verse, shape poems, and list poems. The main devices utilized are hyperbole, repetition, allusion, enjambment, inner monologue, dialogue, and symbolism. These poems are the essential markers and erasers of my teaching career.< Less
Markers & Erasers is a collection of thirty-two poems about my experiences teaching in two Los Angeles public high schools over the course of five years. Throughout the poetry collection, the... More > theme of education evolves from an emphasis on classroom conflict to an emphasis on understanding and reflection. This collection fits into the genre of didactic poetry in that it subtly teaches readers about teaching. I have taken actual events and feelings from the classroom and shared them through a variety of poetry styles. The variance in the visual and lyrical presentations of my poems reflects the diversity of people and experiences one encounters in this profession. The main poetic forms utilized are pataphor, senryu, free verse, shape poems, and list poems. The main devices utilized are hyperbole, repetition, allusion, enjambment, inner monologue, dialogue, and symbolism. These poems are the essential markers and erasers of my teaching career.< Less
FROM 1962 UNTIL EARLY1973, a handful of USAF officers and airmen directed
the close air support for the Vietnamese Airborne and its American advisors in
MACV Advisory Team 162. This Red Marker... More > detachment began as a single Air
Liaison Officer. It grew into a combat unit of 36 personnel with a dozen aircraft
before shrinking to a single officer as the United States withdrew from combat.
Over the decade of its existence, less than 175 men served in the unit. Five of them died in combat. This book contains the history of these forward air controllers from the beginning to the end, based on contributions from 76 men who were there.< Less
The Shattered Gate: Book I follows the lives of four
brothers, second generation landless nobles. The brothers
leave their home and set out to find a new life in the
uncertain territory lands, where... More > they find magic and
fantastical creatures still exist in the background, not
yet banished to antiquity as the new world tries to step
forward from the old. The brothers must find their own
Destiny in a foreign land on the brink of war where
muskets, sabres and etiquette make an empire, while greater
forces work to reshape the lands. As with all realities,
their actions dictate the future that they cannot yet
possibly see.
The Shattered Gate is a story of adventure, intrigue and
courtly drama, where powerful, unseen forces emerge from
centuries of obscurity to find a new hold in the world.< Less
