As my part-time writing career continues, curious people occasionally ask me how I started writing or perhaps why I started writing. And of course, I never gave it much thought as to what triggered the origins of this bug, or itch to put words down on paper. I just started writing. Then I wrote some more. Went to writing conferences, and met a lot of people who were better than I was, and I practiced th Read More

Lake MIchigan Now that my book is closer to publication, the publisher sent to me 15 audio files of professional voice actors, or at least I assume they were professional, and I was asked to choose one to do the audio narration of my book. I tell you what, this was a difficult project. I listened to all fifteen of them and even asked a few people for their opinions, and I was able to narrow it down Read More

I finished with my last patient of the day, but there was still another of my colleagues in a room with a patient. Two office staff remained in the office: a medical assistant to put patients in the room, take their vitals and write down their medications and enter them in the computer, as well as one remaining receptionist.  The rest had already left for the day.  I appreciated the quiet and the Read More

Finally, after 7 years of hard work, research, revisions, reviews and late nights, Blue Shadows, my thriller, will be published. It has a little of everything, which makes it unusual for a thriller: action, suspense, romance, sex, a bit of world events, and the presence of the almighty. Some readers may wish to consult their cardiologist before reading it, however, because hearts will tend to beat fast. Read More

It seems that it is too often that we allow our laziness to invade into our language, more than it should, like couch-potato words, I guess.  Our laziness with words borders on abuse and sometimes at least torture —of innocent and well-meaning little words. In fact, as a reminder, some of you may remember my eloquent, but silly treatise on the stupid ways we use the word “up”.  My attempt w Read More

Enjoy these little teasers.  But remember, when you share, they are copyright protected from publication. But here’s what you need to know:  We all have enemies and we all have friends, but in the end, we must be true to ourselves and to the almighty God. We are here for a reason, whatever that reason is, and if you are given a gift from heaven, use it and maximize it, but do it for the bene Read More

Easter with Ollie The black suburban parked in front of my house exactly at 8:45 am. The driver did not come up and ring my doorbell, probably because he knew my camera surveillance system would notify me of their arrival, or perhaps more likely, he knew I would be looking out my window watching for them. I walked up to the suburban, and the driver opened up the door in back, but before he let me in to j Read More

The dark clouds confirm for me that I’m correct, and that it is a certified melancholy day and I’m waiting for the feeling of redemption tomorrow, on Easter, but today, well, I don’t want to be alone, so I went back to the beach bar.  After all, no one knows where Ollie is now, and this is the only place where I’ve seen him before, outside of Nashville or at church or that fateful day at the beach whe Read More

Carsonisms Part 1 I am sharing some of my quotes that have been published over the years that some find interesting and also brief samples of my writing. Please read at your own risk and if your curiosity overcomes you, I have provided the publications they came from that you can purchase for your reading pleasure.  Of course, you can quote these to your friends and they will be impressed with you even mor Read More

I know some of my loyal readers are inspired by Frank the giant fig plant (tree), but how many are concerned about what happens when Frank consumes my house? He continues to grow like an Atlas rocket, hoping to boost satellites into orbit as a side job, or perhaps his goals are not as lofty, I don’t know, but he seems unstoppable.  I am concerned though, that as spring is here, frogs are going to Read More