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A Bright New Star Shines In Heaven

Dave - July 29, 2019 0

On June 30th, 2019, after a mercifully-brief and terribly unforgiving illness, Denise passed away in a hospital bed somewhere in Brooklyn New York. I don't know when she was born, I don't know where...

Ode To An Old Friend

Dave - January 29, 2018 0

He was always happy and full of life and fearless and resilient... and he was never sick. Ever.

A Necessarily – Amiss Christmas Missive

Dave - December 18, 2021 0

Editor’s note: This was first published back on Christmas Eve of 2009. The world was a dramatically different place back then. Accordingly, it has been nuanced over the years since its first publication. The...

Killing Your Children

Dave - February 27, 2020 0

The weapon of choice is not the problem. The problem is the decision to use a weapon to solve the problem.

An Engineer and Educator by trade, David has been a writer, developer, and accomplished web designer/administrator for more than 20 years. Descended from a long line of Appalachians, on the McCoy side of the feud, he was raised in a God-centric and American pride-influenced home in which kindness, human decency, humility, grace, self-respect, and good manners were expected and enforced. Blinded by three strokes and no longer able to read or write, David developed methods to compensate for these challenges in order to continue communicating; while acknowledging that there is more life in his rear-view mirror than whatever lies ahead through the front windshield, he insists this doesn't mean he has nothing left to say.