End of April 2021 During the summer of 2013, I was in the process of recording some songs for this website, specifically ones that had...

24 January 2021 As of 4:20 pm this day, The Draft Translation of THE DAWN into L’AUBE is completed. It has been a bumpy road for me, but...

7 December 2020 I am presently progressing, or plowing, through the translation of the first chapter of the Final Book, Book 7, of THE...

November’s End 2020 Last evening, I was engaged in multi-tasking amidst my translation of Chapter 91 of THE DAWN into L’AUBE. I’m coming...

8 September 2020 Yesterday, I observed Labor Day in the USA by working — on the translation of Chapter 77 of THE DAWN into L’AUBE. I’d forgotten about how very opposed to the cross-Channel invasion Prime Minister Winston Churchill had been in 1942. The military commanders in the American enclave of the Allied forces punted a response to his rejection of this idea by stating that there were insufficient landing craft to pull of such an operation. They were correct, of course.

5 July 2020 These 4th of July extravaganzas are not what they used to be — which means they are absolutely spectacular! I’ve experienced...

Easter 2020 I knew that it would not take long before the Macron government went full-Vichy, but I did not ever envision the post-card —...

November 2019 Decades ago, during my single years, I routinely attended an aerobics class led by a gal who became a good friend. This...

September 2019 I wonder if the touchy-feely alarmists ought to be treated for the heartbreak of psoriasis. They are so thin-skinned and...

Memorial Day 2019 It was during my research into the voluminous materials that would transform my ideas for a war novel called NOTTINGHAM...

August 2018 Rule Britannia Vive la France Hooray for the Red, White, and Blue On this ten-year anniversary of when I first began to write THE DAWN, I’d like to offer some insights into why I even composed this momentous tome. Please pull up a chair and enjoy these thoughts. One reason, among many, that I began to write THE DAWN was my sense, post 9/11, that Europe was collapsing, but not in the ways that the dooms-dayers have been saying for over a century. Not even in the wa