"Guest Bloggers" Blogs & Blog Posts

On occasion, I invite people whose insights I trust to contribute guest posts for the blog. On rare occasions, they deliver the goods! I hope you enjoy this one on terminology in the game of contract bridge.   My mother could never understand h...

  Flinch Not: Digging Deep to Research a Tough Subject By Ashley Warren On a sunny day in early 2010, I sat in my parked car, late for an appointment, stunned by an NPR story about sexual predators. I had no idea such criminals roamed freely on univ...

My, What A Difference Thirty Years Make Jane Mersky Leder gives us her insight on the myths of teen suicide. Imagine a world in which there are no cell phones, no social media, no World Wide Web.  Think about a culture in which prejudice and silence...

Fix Your Love of Fructose Fixing your “sweet tooth” may help save your life. Why fructose and most refined sugars should be public health enemy number one and why you should avoid them. Research has confirmed that consuming the various forms of r...

The Inspiration Behind The Song of Solomon Revealed by Owen Sypher I am Owen Sypher and I love to understand the mysteries in the Bible. I got inspired to write my book from listening to someone who preached some from Song of Solomon.  I started to...

The Inspiration Behind the War Eternal Series By J.F. Cain As a child, I was drawn to the mysterious, the magical, and the unfathomable. As I grew older this interest grew, creating a thirst in me to know and understand human nature, the world surrou...

10 Things You Didn’t Know About Monsterland By Michael Okon I came up with idea of Monsterland while watching an 80s & 90s movie marathon one weekend with my son. I called my brother immediately and told him I want to write a story about a them...