About three years ago, I was deep within the darkest days of my life. I was quite ill, feeling miserable with every click of the clock. It was more physical suffering than I thought a human could bear. My future ws defined in months, not years. It was at the beginning of the pandemic and…

I am getting excited! After three incredible years of work on the Stones of Yemen, the book will soon be released to the public as a paperback, hard cover, Kindle, and audiobook. It is my best book ever and the feedback from readers will determine if I try to write again. For the last three…

I didn’t think I would write another word about postmodernism. It’s the same thing I’ve been talking about for years, my assertion that universal truth exists and our reason is an excellent—God-given—tool for finding truth. I shifted to calling it “postmodernism” a few weeks ago, as that was the topic of several personal conversations I…

Skip this article and go to the podcast here. I decided to do podcasts several months ago in order to take controversial topics and topics that have a small footprint of interest off my “front page” and put them “behind the counter,” meaning not as easily accessible, except by the sincerely interested. Today, I am…

Health Update: I said I would not post about my health unless there was something new. There is really not, except for one minor point. Last month my news was that even the most sensitive test for Multiple Myeloma, the M-Spike, was no longer positive. Well, then it was listed as “present but too low…

I have a new podcast (here) that is on my common theme of finding absolute truth and rationality in a postmodern world. It is looking at the history and consequences of postmodernism through a simplistic philosophical window. While this has been a recurring theme of my writing and speaking for decades, this time it came…

Things are well with the Jones family. We had a holiday get-together with 4 of our 5 kids and their significant others up in the Cascades. The snow was 50 inches by the time we left and the driving was precarious at best (the pass was closed the day before and after each journey over).…

Novels are birthed from a wide variety of inspirations. I wrote Christiana Athena: The Girl with the Headaches in four weeks from a hospital bed at the University of Washington while undergoing a bone marrow transplant. It was either writing a book or laying there thinking about my suffering and watching soap operas. But I’ve…

I am going to end this series of articles here, as not to “beat a dead horse.” But I do what to look at a couple of dimensions of pretentiousness and avatars, that I have not covered. In the area of pretentiousness, I wish we all could be more authentic. I wish that society was…

As stated before, I have always been interested in how we form a gap between who we really are in our secret, personal spaces, and how we present ourselves to the public. I am thinking about this concept now, and writing about it, because my next novel–if I choose to write another one–is centered on…