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January 25, 2020
Bayou Moon #6
How y’all gonna know? That was the question haunting Landry. Old John’s words played over in his head at the end of every path his mind started down. He still held to the thought that hit him earlier that the murders weren’t random. Lockett was a small town. Lives and histories tended to... Continue Reading →
Knight Song
A poem. Now available in Free Stories
January 24, 2020
Know Jack #129 Plain as Day
“For his letters, say they, are weighty and powerful; but his bodily presence is weak, and his speech contemptible.” St Paul, who wrote the bulk of the New Testament epistles penned this quotation by his detractors within the church at Corinth. I don’t know what the man looked like, but he did mention that he... Continue Reading →
January 23, 2020
Know Jack #128 Fear Itself
I’m not sure how evident it has been here on the blog, but I have been struggling with a case of writer’s block since NaNoWriMo ended at the close of November. One thing I have discovered during that time is that, for me, writer’s block is about everything except writing. Writing is my way of... Continue Reading →
January 21, 2020
Know Jack #127
“No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main…Any man’s death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind…” John Donne. For none of us lives to himself, and no man dies to himself…Let us therefore follow after the things which make for... Continue Reading →
January 20, 2020
Lost Crusader #25 Words
“O Lord, you have searched me, and known me…you understand my thoughts afar off…for there is not a word in my tongue, but, lo, you know it altogether.” Psalm 139 God’s familiarity with us can be a blessing or, provided we possess a working conscious sense of justice and moral right, a great terror. “God... Continue Reading →
January 18, 2020
Bayou Moon
Chapter 5 Landry’s third cup of coffee eased the throb in his right temple allowing a hint of the bright sunshine outside his window to creep into his disposition. He had fallen into bed the night before exhausted by two days with minimal sleep only to find himself unable to let go of the... Continue Reading →
Know Jack #126
Welcome to all my new friends and followers of the blog. Feel free to roam around the Raven and Owl and comment when and what you like. For all the newbies, the blog is a sort of online pub where I share about writing and have a few other identities that chime in on politics,... Continue Reading →
January 17, 2020
Know Jack #125 X Games
One of the things I find forever fascinating in life is the occasional intersect of ideas that, to me, reveal the blinding force of extremism. Extremism is readily evident in politics and religion and that’s why the faint in heart flee at the sound of discussion of these topics. However, extremism is by no means... Continue Reading →
January 15, 2020
Know Jack #124 Huh?
Know Jack #124 I was privileged today to be interviewed by the Warhawks Air Museum in Nampa as part of their Veterans History Project. My military background is not colorful or exceptional in any way, but it was very gracious of them, first, to take notice of regular guys like me and to record our... Continue Reading →
