KALISPELL, MT — On 14 December 2021, the Kalispell School District Board passed the motion for a high school camera project, as well as an elementary school project. Thus upgrading existing cameras where blindspots possibly exist and upgrading existing equipment. The Montana Daily Gazette reported that these were “facial recognition”…

JUNE 6, 1944, OFF THE COAST OF NORMANDY The stink of 225 men in a battleship stung my nostrils. All were sweating, making the stench worse. The only thing that kept me from getting to the deck of the ship for fresh air was the royal flush in my hand…

Like most high schoolers, I jumped right from one educational institution right to another thinking that I knew exactly what I wanted. I would find out with a harsh reality that I did not know what I wanted. I went to school originally for Secondary Education, but couldn’t decide between…

Note: This has affiliate links and the author may receive a commission if anything is purchased. I usually will be reading several books at once, with one perhaps getting a little more attention. Like my interests, I can’t just stick with one thing, so I end up reading several books…

The other day I closed out my KDP. I decided to pull my books from the online marketplace. Many people close to me wondered why, and why I didn’t just leave them up if I wasn’t going to focus on publishing. Well, the answer goes a little deeper than me…

Whenever my wife watches a musical, she ends up singing it whenever she has the opportunity to, which is…always. Both of us are theatre kids, so I don’t usually mind, except for when I haven’t seen the musical, then it’s just annoying. I finally was able to watch it with…

My eldest son, at eight years old, asked me this the other day. I wasn’t entirely sure how to respond, since war is an ugly thing to love. He had the perfect reason to ask me, though. I write historical fiction with a leaning towards military history, something I fell…

Lately, I’ve had a lot on my plate. I’ve described it as though I were in a food line and someone is loading my plate up to the point of me saying, “Okay, I’m good.” Only they don’t stop loading it up and the food starts to overflow the plate…

JULY 1960: During nine days, three Special Forces operators from the 10th Special Forces Group rescued 239 Europeans and Americans without a casualty. The Belgian Congo in 1960 was a dangerous place for any white European. …