I'm a talking head on the Writers Fix Problems podcast: NY Times best selling author Blaine Pardoe & I discuss my new novel Friendship Games about a US war with Iran. It was fun!
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The Great Delusion, by John Mearsheimer
05/29/2023
I am trying to understand the Ukraine War.
Morning Person
05/15/2023
So AncestryDNA has a category labeled "Traits Report". I hadn't clicked on that before, but I was poking around and they have a new genetics-based category on Morning Person vs Night Owl.
Wisdom of the Bullfrog President?
05/03/2023
I recently read Admiral William McRaven's Wisdom of the Bullfrog: Leadership Made Simple (But Not Easy). McRaven is a retired Navy SEAL Admiral. He is credited for organizing and overseeing Operation Neptune's Spear, the special operations raid on Osama Bin Laden's compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan, in 2011.
The Geography of Friendship Games
04/28/2023
Geography plays a significant role in Friendship Games. Following the sinking of a US aircraft carrier in the Persian Gulf, prominent Iranians are convinced that the USA will launch a war and seek nothing short of regime change and an end to the Islamic Republic.
Announcing FRIENDSHIP GAMES Audiobook
04/07/2023
FRIENDSHIP GAMES AUDIOBOOK RELEASED
Songs of Surrender: U2 Unplugged
03/18/2023
It is St. Patrick's Day 2023, and Irish band U2 released their 40-song new (make that 'reimagined') album Songs of Surrender. 'Reimagined' in the sense that the 40 songs of SOS are not new tracks but, rather, 'reimagined' updates of 40 songs from their existing discography.
Blue Dawn, by Blaine Pardoe
03/09/2023
I've been meaning to write a review of Blaine Pardoe's Blue Dawn for quite some time.
Okay, so this I like. Yes, it is in the same vein as the other three pre-released singles: Pride (I like that new ending, though), With Or Without You, One. Stripped down and slow. But I haven't been a true fan of anything past their Zooropa album except for some individual songs here and there. I do like their most recent album, ...
Look at what the cat dragged in
02/25/2023
A US aircraft blows up and sinks in the Persian Gulf. Was it an accident? An attack? Does it matter? Not after years of antagonism between the USA & Iran, and Iranian brinkmanship.