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An Interview With The Author

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I thought this would be a good time to check in with you because you have an anniversary coming up. I think it’s number 6.

That’s right. I posted the first column on Tuesday, October 6, 2020. In fact, this is column 158. For the statistically minded, all the columns amount to a total of about 120,000 words.

Have you ever thought you might run out of ideas to write about?

I did at first because I couldn’t estimate or even imagine how many subjects I would write about before having to repeat myself. So far, though, that hasn’t … Read the rest “An Interview With The Author”

Night War

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It was happening again. I’m deep in sleep when the words begin coming into my brain from somewhere, an account, a news story, with names, places, and events. Yet, I later find no evidence that any of it is true. Even more puzzling, nothing seems to have caused it.

Eventually, it wakes me up, yet the words keep coming. Not until they stop do I get up and write what’s been revealed:

Colonel Frank Young, a U.S. Air Force officer stationed in Kabul, Afghanistan, had just picked up his staff vehicle from the repair depot. He was driving through the … Read the rest “Night War”