First Day of School – The Year of the Winding Road (Chapter One)

This is the first chapter of my second serial novel, The Year of the Winding Road < click here to see the main page for the novel, read the other chapters if you missed them or have no idea what this story is about. Note to readers: While this story does have events in it […]

Agitators

Agitate (verb): to excite and often trouble the mind or feelings of; to disturb; to discuss excitedly and earnestly; to stir up public discussion of; to give motion to; to attempt to arouse public feeling The wildfires in the Los Angeles area have been on my mind the past few weeks, as they have been […]

Home

I’m currently sitting on the steps of the front porch of my parents’ home in Orange County, California. I am on my last full day of my trip back “home.” It’s been a short trip, since I didn’t know how long exactly to plan for and didn’t want to use up too much of my […]

Favorite Teachers: Miss Goettinger

It’s teacher appreciation week in most of the United States, and since I think a great deal about the teachers I have had over the years, I decided to try to write about some of them this week. By no means is this a comprehensive list. But I continue my posts with one of the […]