Tag: Shootings

I returned home from Iraq before Christmas 2007. The PlayStation 3 had dropped during my time in combat, but became a hard commodity to come by, so I assumed I’d grab one for Christmas. As with any product around the holidays, it became impossible to find, but a few friends had got their hands...

Tragically, it has happened again — a lone gunman taking the lives of multiple innocent people in a rural town in the United States. Eighteen people were killed, and 13 others were injured when a gunman with a high-powered rifle opened fire in a bowling alley and restaurant in Lewiston, Maine,...

Another sad day has come and gone as a new school shooting has occurred, this time at a school in Perry, Iowa. Five people were wounded and two are deceased including the gunman and a 6th grader. Perry, Iowa, is a town with around 8,000 people surrounded by corn fields on the northea...

. . . Carmen looked down into Jim’s eyes, tears welling up as she clasped the hand holding hers . . . . Unable to speak, she raised him from his knee to stand in front of her. She framed his face between her hands and kissed his eyes, then his lips. “Yes, yes” she said, in answer t...

O Lord, we give thanks to millions of our fellow Americans for not shooting. Because of them, most of us in this great, great nation are still alive. We pray for the wise men in power who look so sad after each school shooting as they tell us, “Now is not the time…” God give th...

I think it’s because I used to listen to Concrete Blonde albums religiously in the 80's and early 90's, when I first started writing, and getting my Album Reviews and Poetry published in my early twenties. Now I’m back writing creatively again, not solely for business purposes...