by mike | May 19, 2025 | Holocaust, Horror, Horror Movies, Movies, TV Shows, Uncategorized, Women |
The late actress, Ingrid Pitt, gained a great deal of notoriety while starring in a number of 1970s horror films from Britain’s Hammer Film Productions and other studios. But no fictional movie could match the unthinkable, real-life horror she experienced as a child....
by mike | Jan 8, 2024 | Aging, Holocaust, Humor, Life, Uncategorized |
Being retired means never having to wear a tie. But I was a long way from retirement the last time I actually put on one of the damn things. How long? Let me share this story. QUITE AN HONOR March 6, 1996: a significant date in my life for a number of reasons. First,...
by mike | Jun 30, 2022 | Books, Death, Holocaust, Thrillers, Uncategorized |
Have things changed much since I first presented this post in 2018? If anything, they’ve gotten worse. Last week, in a quiet suburb near San Diego, some moronic cretins thought it would be fun to paint a swastika on the home of a Jewish family. On the first night of...
by mike | Dec 13, 2021 | Books, Holocaust, Life, Thrillers, Uncategorized, Writing |
I’ve stepped out of my comfort zone a number of times in the more than two dozen novels that I wrote, a scene here, a chapter there. But with my award-winning thriller, Freedom’s Hand, I authored the entire book from a location far away from my comfort zone. All of my...
by mike | Jul 22, 2021 | Books, Holocaust, Publishing, Thrillers, Uncategorized, Writing |
Sadly, this award-winning novel—about a brutal white supremacist group in the 1990s—continues to be relevant today, as it was in 2017, when I last presented this post. I began writing the bare bones of Freedom’s Hand many years ago and ultimately published it in 2013....
by mike | Jan 21, 2021 | Books, Death, Holocaust, Life, Research, Thrillers, Uncategorized |
Once again, I’m re-running this post from a few years back. Why? Because it seems that EVIL is running rampant, not only around the world, but also in our own country. And if anything, it is getting worse. This morning my bride picked up the main section of our local...