The Crow's Nest

Adam Sandler’s new Netflix standup show is mostly classic Sandler: sophomoric, crass, silly, and mildly entertaining. There is a segment in that special, though, where he transcends the simplistic...

Far too many boys grow up without a father and the sad results of that reality can be seen in the moral decline and overall confusion of society as...

I’m coming up on another anniversary of my mother’s passing. It is the time of year I can’t help but think of her and most recently I’ve been listening...

Horror movies tend to be so overly formulaic I don’t give them much attention. I liked them as a kid. They don’t impress me much today. And then came...

After months of hype, tens of millions of dollars in slick television and social media promotional campaigns, Universal released the Neil Armstrong biopic First Man in 3640 theatres across...

88-years-old and still making the kind of films that are tough to look away from. And in “The Mule” Mr. Eastwood also returns to acting for the first time...

History is important. It matters. An absence of knowledge of history opens people up to abusive manipulations of historical fact in favor of fiction—and that is a potentially very...

The wife (aka The Little General) sent this my way as a recommended listen a few weeks back. It reminded her a bit of my newest novel, The Bowman Boys,...

America is at times such an odd and contradictory place I hardly recognize it anymore. Politics are largely to blame, of that I’m sure. Everything is divisiveness taken to...

(Be sure to check out the drone video below! Credit: MV Orca) My regular readers know well my ongoing (and bestselling 🙂 ) SAN JUAN ISLANDS MYSTERY SERIES. A good...

So the brand new novel THE BOWMAN BOYS is out and about making new friends, possibly a few enemies, as it enjoys a reasonably strong foothold within the all-important Amazon...

OITNB hasn’t been a must-watch cultural zeitgeist since the conclusion of its second season but the subsequent seasons were generally entertaining despite the too-often clunkiness of the writing, the...

So read the headline in the New York Times. I was drawn to it immediately for a couple of reasons. First, whatever happened to that situation in Flint the...

With a release date now just a few weeks away, author D.W. Ulsterman takes a moment to let readers know a little more about his latest novel, The Bowman...

Coming soon!                                          

According to the CDC, the suicide rate among women of certain age groups has jumped 80% since 1999. EIGHTY PERCENT. It’s an appallingly tragic number and one that does...

Hello all – I’m finishing up the first draft then it’s off to editing. Until then enjoy this teaser…    

What is potentially taking place this week between North and South Korea is so historically significant it boggles the mind. For nearly seventy years the two nations have been...

What a strange time it is in American politics. I have longtime liberal acquaintances demanding we start a war in Syria and longtime conservative friends applauding the President’s decision...

Some estimates state about 150,000 attended the Washington D.C. “March For Our Lives” protest while other estimates place the number close to 500,000. I’ll assume it’s likely somewhere in...

Apologies to those I might offend.  I’ve never been one for public profanity.  Today is going to be different.  Cancer can go fuck itself. God do I mean that....

The School Kids Of This Country Deserve REAL Solutions Regarding School Safety, Mental Illness, And Gun Rights/Gun Control and right now they aren’t getting it. We have screaming from...

I came across a great article out by today by The National Review that I highly recommend. It involves a topic near and dear to me and one that...

Thanks to all of you who’ve been asking about when SAVAGE will be available. The answer is very soon – I promise! Until then enjoy this preview video: —————————–

I first came across Erik Larson about five years ago when I picked up his Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania and was instantly drawn into his narrative style....

As the Kindle Scout campaign winds down for my latest novel, SAVAGE (you can still nominate it HERE ) I thought I should take a moment to do two things. The...

Had an interesting article pop up on my  Twitter feed this morning. It was posted by a youngish (and increasingly successful – good on him!)  New York publishing agent...

Weeks earlier I shared with all of you a bit of an ongoing real-life story of survival titled, The Children of Agent Orange. It detailed how a young woman who...

Hello again, If you nominated Rosario’s Revenge during its Kindle Scout campaign you likely have already received a message it wasn’t selected as a winner for publication. I knew it...

For all those sitting on trains, planes and automobiles this holiday here’s a little video to hopefully bring a smile to your face. Enjoy and Happy Thanksgiving to all...

I’ve been listening to Bob Dylan for most of my adult life. I didn’t entirely get him as a younger man – too few miles on the tread and...

I’ll keep this one relatively brief… I have to smile a bit at the near-breathless headlines from the media. Words like “tsunami” and “landslide” are common. Make no mistake,...

Hey, I’m all for a good thing. You betcha. This Republican tax reform bill though? It’s far from good – at least for much of the Middle Class. Not...

Some years ago I voted to raise taxes. It was a vote for which both sides of that damnable political fence rightfully condemned me for. I briefly tried to...

That’s a rather depressing headline, yeah? I’m sharing it with readers as an extension of my own curiosity with the impact modern society has on our collective health and...

It’s our time to make a move It’s our time to make amends It’s our time to break the rules Let’s begin… —————– Many don’t know the story of...

After you die, your brain knows you’re dead, terrifying study reveals  Have you ever wondered what happens when you die? You’ve probably heard about how those who have died and...

These are by far the most powerful, heart-wrenching words I’ve heard come from anyone associated with the White House in quite some time. General John Kelly is a Gold...

Take a second to nominate ROSARIO’S REVENGE. If it wins you get to read it for FREE! Go HERE: http://amzn.to/2yUtZDh ——————- The Kindle Scout interview: Q. Is there a message in...

People aren’t all bad. In fact, some of them are downright good. Earlier I posted a little blog titled, The Divided States of America. Will It Ever Get Better? In...