This month we road-tripped from AZ to Cali to visit Joshua Tree National Park. We had a great time, saw some neat sights, I got to cross another National Park off our list.
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In October of 2021, I went to Northern California and met my extended for a sight-seeing and hiking trip. We saw Pinnacles National Park, the redwoods at Big Sur, Monterey Bay, and Natural Bridges State Park. Last on the list, we rode the roller coasters at the Santa Cruz Boardwalk.
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In October of 2020, my family and I traveled to Glacier National Park in northwestern Montana. We had an incredible time.
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As of 2020, American politicians have spent 40 giving lip service to white, uneducated and low-skilled workers, promising they would bring back manufacturing jobs. The advent of Facebook and social media in general, plus the spreading of conspiracy theories about politicians no longer trusted, coupled with new leaders willing to lay blame for these grievances at the feet of immigrants and foreign workers, has produced millions of radicalized white Americans, flocking to the tenets of a radical form of Nationalism.
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When invited to write a guest article for a book reviewer, I chose to focus on a dynamic aspect of Iron Spires: the use of the Colombian region in the 19th century as the primary setting.
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I begin my exploaration of the modern day cluster fuck that is American politics by first looking at my own situation and the world immediately surrounding me.
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Recently I was asked in an interview What is Steampunk? Perhaps the most reasonable question to ask a new author with a published Steampunk novel, particularly because it is a fringe genre, a genre within a genre within a genre, seemingly worshiped by a few select geeks.
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WRITING PROMPT: Although I was born a villain, as I get older I find myself more and more on the side of the angels.
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Current events surrounding the Black Lives Matter have sent me down a rabbit hole, not because I have ever experienced any sort of discrimination in my life. I am a middle class white male living in the United States; I am a priveledged person in this world. Or as I perfer to frame it, I am lucky that the circumstances of my birth never put me at a disadvantage.
But when I was a teenager, I was a hoodlum and experienced brutality at the hands of the police. I quickly learned this is how the African-American community experiences the police in this country, regardless of whether they are crooks or not.
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