
Seven Days in May
I was giving a keynote at the Santa Barbara Writers Conference several years ago and I mentioned this book and movie and got blank stares.

I was giving a keynote at the Santa Barbara Writers Conference several years ago and I mentioned this book and movie and got blank stares.

15 March is a significant date in history, but not just for the event of 44 BC. It’s also the date in 1917 that the

This might be the most significant event of the 20th Century. Tsarist Russia was gone, replaced by Communist Russia. Part of the momentum behind Hitler’s

This is the stuff I love finding when researching. in 1720, a Spanish expedition out of Santa Fe was attacked in Nebraska by Native Americans,

One of the duties of a fiction writer is to predict the future; and sometimes re imagine the past. The issue of a president bloated

It really doesn’t. Any man-made disaster usually has seven cascade events, with the seventh being the disaster. At least one of the six previous ones

This is a guest post by my wife, who is much smarter. Deb: I’ve decided that everything is about age. Bob and I got a

Abridged from Stuff Doesn’t Just Happen: The Gift of Failure. I go through the seven Cascade Events that led to Pearl Harbor in detail in

Dogs have a very unique role, not just as pets, but in the way they integrated themselves into human society long ago. They are descended