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I remember as a young child coming outside of our house and finding that my bike had been stolen. My heart sank. I remember asking myself how anyone could steal a kid's bike. A bike gives a child their first sense of independence and freedom. It expands a child's opportunity to interact with the world and their friends. And as such, children form deep emotional attachments to their bikes, or at least I did. Not only did it give me freedom, but it was also a birthday gift. I wasn't spoiled as...

Ball Turret Gunner: Granddaddy Ray, Memorial Day, and the Books I Write

Cover image: AI-generated artwork depicting an imagined view of Front Range City (FRC) with the flag of the United North American States (UNAS) flying. The UNAS is the future version of the United States as it exists in the world of the Protocol Sequence series.

This post runs a little longer than my usual updates. It felt like the right weekend for it.


This weekend, we pause.

Every Memorial Day I think about a man curled inside a plexiglass bubble underneath a B-17 Flying Fortress, somewhere...