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Book Notes: Character Choices
I started Knights Without Ceremony twenty-seven years ago, before the rising awareness of underrepresentation in the authorship and subject matter of books, especially those for...
Book Notes: Cover Story
The cover for my new book, Knights Without Ceremony: Insurrection, is not typical for upper middle grade medieval adventures—and for a very good reason. In...
Maserati Shopper Generously Doubles Thoughts and Prayers Offering for Flood Victims
When told that some of the money he was getting from the Republican tax cuts was coming from Weather Service staffing cuts that can be...
On Parenting
Our firstborn will be receiving his high school diploma on the stage of Boston Symphony Hall today. The ceremony will mark the end of four...
Welcome
I crashed on my bike the other day. After almost forty years of daily riding, I've come to accept that crashes happen with mathematical regularity—this...
That Didn’t Take Long!
In my last post, I noted my concern with the risk of AI politicization, specifically around the intentional directing of chatbots to be biased, ideological,...
The Looming Problem of AI Politicization
AI offers the great potential to improve human lives, from problem-solving and efficiency gains to increased productivity. To date, I have not seen any sign...
Book Bans: Denying Reality Does Not Change It
The Department of Education under the Trump administration has declared that the thousands of book bans implemented in communities across the US over the past...
Gender is a Spectrum
As a writer who is also a bullying prevention educator, I feel compelled to remind everyone that the notion that human gender falls on a...
The Honor and Shame Culture of Italian-Americans: Time to Shed the Baggage
I had dinner with a friend the other night, who told me that he ended his marriage. Well, technically, his marriage had been over for...
I Have Found the Cure for EV Range Anxiety!
This post is for anyone considering buying an EV but is reluctant due to range anxiety. I was one of those people until a month...
The Lessons in JD Vance’s Cyberbullying
As a bullying prevention educator, I’ve spent quite a bit of time explaining the concepts and nuances of juvenile bullying behaviors to teachers, principals, parents,...
Ignore the Misinformation and Your Anxiety and Get an EV
We got our first EV (pictured), and while we were out on a Boston Harbor booze cruise celebrating a couple’s fiftieth birthdays (yes, you can...
Oh Frankie, Say It Ain’t So!
I was disappointed to see that Pope Francis, someone who gave me hope that the Catholic Church was starting to catch up with modern society...
Think Global, Act Local
Recently my family spent a week in London, a rescheduled trip that had been cancelled due to Covid. My wife and I wanted our boys...
Simple Student Plea: To Be Safe from Bullying and Violence
Imagine being a student at a school where bullying is not just ignored by educators but implicitly encouraged by district leaders and state politicians. Welcome...
Book review: “Gather” by Kenneth M. Cadow
I read a lot of books. Okay, I take that back. I start a lot of books. As a writer, I like to keep up...
New CirclePoint Website is Live!
I'm excited to announce the launch of a new online bullying prevention information center at www.circlepointbullying.com. Over a decade ago, I was invited by the...
A Climate-Related Poll for Politically Conservative Catholics
Given this week's COP28 gathering on climate change, I posed a question on FB for my Roman Catholic friends who have voted for political candidates...
“KWC: Insurrection” Supporting Insurrectionists?!?
Bound copies of my manuscript for Knight Without Ceremony arrived today. YAY! I had copies made so my wife could read the book (no, I...
KWC is a BookLife Prize Semifinalist!
I'm thrilled to announce that KWC was selected as a semifinalist for the 2023 BookLife Prize!
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