The Free Lance-Star prints my letter to the editor.

My letter to the editor about conspiracy theories was also published by The Free Lance-StarYou can find it right here.

The Free Lance-Star is a leading regional news source with more than 65,000 weekday readers.  I’m always especially pleased to see something I’ve written appear here, because Fredericksburg, Virginia is my college town.  🙂

Thanks yet again to the newspaper’s editorial staff for allowing me to share through this important source of news and commentary in northeast Virginia.



Throwback Thursday: the Ridge Elementary School Class of 1984!

An old pal of mine was cleaning out her closets and happened across this t-shirt from Ridge Elementary School in New York.  I am actually still friends with a bunch of the people listed here.  New Yorkers stick together.   🙂

Was the Roadrunner our unofficial school mascot or something?  I honestly do not remember.  Thirty-eight years is a long time.



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The Roanoke Times published my latest letter to the editor.

I’m happy today to see that The Roanoke Times published my letter to the editor about relying too heavily on “open mindedness” in considering conspiracy theories.  You can read it online right here.

Thanks, as always, to the editorial department of The Roanoke Times for allowing me to share my opinion in this leading regional Virginia newspaper.



Poster for “Doctor Strange” (2016)

Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures.

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500 blog followers today.

Gonna buy me a milkshake. 🙂

Which might actually attract more followers, given its proven efficacy at bringing boys to the yard.



“Autumn,” Isaac Levitan, 1889

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“Not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life …”

“I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life, the life of effort, labor and strife; to preach that highest form of success which comes, not the the man who desires mere easy peace, but to the man who does not shrink from danger, from hardship, or from bitter toil, and who out of these wins the splendid ultimate triumph.”

— Theodore Roosevelt



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The Piker Press publishes my “Quiet White Dog Short Poem.”

I’m honored today to see The Piker Press publish my “Quiet White Dog Short Poem.”  You can read it right here.

Thanks once again to Managing Editor Sand Pilarski for allowing me to be a part of the fun and engaging creative community surrounding The Piker Press!



“The Playground!” Winsor McCay, 1914

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Ghost Nolan sez hello.

The spooky season is here again.  As during every October, I am trying to get into the spirit of things.

I started with the quite decent vampire comedy, Netflix’ new “Day Shift” (not to be confused with the unrelated but fabulous 2014 vampire comic series, “Day Men.”)  It was a fun watch.  The humor and drama were frequently pretty clunky, but the vamps were scary and the fight choreography was so good it reminded me of the “Blade” trilogy.

I also caught episode 1 of AMC’s new Anne Rice adaptation, “Interview With The Vampire.”  It was stylish, detailed and thoughtful and it was brutal at the end — this looks like the start of a great horror series.

Next on the list, of course, will be the resumption of AMC’s “The Walking Dead.”

By the way … . this is what I look like when I haunt your house at night.



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