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I remember this day clearly when these two photos  were taken. I  was 7 years old and just months earlier I  was locked in a room with a monster screaming for someone to save me.  No one heard my screams. On this particular day the trauma no one knew caused me to become emotionally upset […]

Today is the official publication date of Living For Today. Find it in your local bookstore now. May it reach into the souls of those who are trying to heal and may it way up a society that has hushed this silent epidemic far too long. I hope you will help me make some noise […]

The image above is the first page of ideas that I poured on paper in June 2006 for the book that would turn into my second book Living For Today. I remember that night sitting in bed jotting down my thoughts for my 2nd book and what first came to my mind when I was […]

There are things I have avoided talking about on my blog for over a year now because much of it would make no sense to anyone since it would relate to things people don’t know about me. Now with my 2nd book Living For Today arriving on the doorsteps of homes and being placed on […]

It’s 2 weeks until the official launch of my 2nd book Living For Today. If you order it on Amazon you can get it early. However I suggest you go to your bookstore and order it and have them call you when it comes in. I have one favor to ask my blog readers out […]

Today was the start of my new job. The first job that isn’t an internship where I will be putting the skills I learned in undergrad and grad school to work. More then that the skills I have learned in life that has caused me to become a better person and go into a field […]

Western Illinois University 20th annual Take Back the Night.

I recently got in touch with the chief of my hometown police department. I described in my first book how we had a man from the police department that came in and taught us about stranger danger and saying no to drugs through DARE. However we never learned about what to do when it is […]