Michael’s Musings Hi Everybody, Thank you for buying and reading my books and to my many new friends who found me by reading my short...

Oakland Hell’s Angels, the Symbionese Liberation Army with their safe house in Concord, and the Chowchilla School Bus Kidnappers were...

It was just after the 7:30 AM Mass; the Bishop had just gone into the sacristy and on the life-sized crucifix hanging on the back wall of...

Somebody once wrote that there is a book in each of us waiting to be written, and veteran Marine Staff Sergeant Mark Clifford, from the...

The story of how a young boy from Lithuania, Victor (Vytas) Palciauskas, living in a Displaced Persons’ Camp in Augsburg, Germany for...

It’s rare in 2024 to find somebody living almost off the grid and close to downtown! Gloria Utley lives in a home built in 1890 sitting...

Having written two books about World War II, I couldn’t wait to meet Papa Jake Larson, almost one hundred and two years old and one of...

Four men and two women from Turkmenistan, five of them journalists, aged between twenty six and thirty six, have just spent a week as...

Turkmenistan: A closed country revealed Part I. Few people in the USA have heard of Turkmenistan, a sparsely populated and poorly known...

“At D1” “Well, what do you think?” Smiley asked, looking straight ahead, his eyes never deviating from the port side red light on the...

SILK Silk is a startling, sensual, hypnotically compelling novella about a French silk merchant, Herve Jancour’s several dangerous...

An icy November wind swirled the dense mist over the Salisbury Plains almost obscuring Stonehenge. Professor Isaac Cedric Effingham,...

It all happened because of Dair Dockery. If he hadn’t been in Tulsk that day and if the skies hadn’t opened, forcing him to spend the...

As a shy fifteen-year-old schoolboy, I was often the unfortunate victim of having to stand before the class and read my short stories out...

I have just finished reading my third novel by Sally Rooney, followed by Cormac McCarthy’s latest, Stella Maris and I’d like to report...

Dr. Reza Khazaie is simply an amazing character. While his Willow Pass Dental Care offices, on Willow Pass Road in Concord, is bustling...

Concord Rotarian, Extraordinary Humanitarian to 65 Countries and Counting David King. As he daily walks his rescued Tibetan terrier...

Is this the new Apocalypse for writers? The start of a new conversation. Some months ago, a short article on the internet piqued my...

An Afghan interpreter’s Escape. Part II It was 7:30 AM when they arrived at Al Udeid airbase in Qatar. Even at that early hour it was...

An Afghan interpreter’s escape. Who can ever forget the frightening and shocking images that went viral, of Afghan people trying to hang...