by admin | Jun 9, 2025 | History, mental health
This is about knowing your emotional limits, expressed as a history nerd metaphor. I wrote it as a paramedic, with EMS in mind, but it certainly can apply elsewhere. I’ve been working on the ambulance for a quarter of a century. I’ve had Bad Days. Far more good days,...
by admin | May 19, 2022 | Uncategorized
I recently read “The Crystal Void” by John Houlihan. This was a joy to read. If George MacDonald Fraser’s Harry Flashman series had an illegitimate child with HP Lovecraft’s Cthulhu series, this would be it. The main character, Captain...
by admin | Oct 24, 2020 | Books, publishing, Uncategorized, Writing
Recently I got a mediocre review of my pulp sword and sorcery book Broken Crossroads. In and of itself, that’s fine. I’ve survived worse, everyone is entitled to their opinion, and mediocre is better than scathing, so I’m not all that broken up. But what did concern...
by admin | Jun 3, 2020 | EMS, End of the World as we know it, Mr Sunshine, politics, Rebel in the making, Society
I’m going to take a moment to talk about the recent murder of George Floyd, and how it’s part of a continued trend, and try to take a swipe at one of the pillars of the problem. Pretty much everyone can agree that Floyd’s murder was beyond the pale. That it was...
by admin | Mar 24, 2020 | EMS, End of the World as we know it, politics, Society
Not a post about writing, today. Just something I need to say. For all the people urging the reopening of the economy and ending social distancing in the Covid 19 pandemic because “we can’t let the cure be worse than the disease,” citing damage to...
