This past weekend I confronted the idea of death once again as I attended the funeral of my oldest uncle who passed at age 102+. It was not a sad affair as we all recognized he’d had an awesome life.…

April first brings with it an almost irresistible temptation to play a prank. Spoiler Alert: This is not an April Fools joke. I’ve never been particularly successful at pulling one off, so I’m not going to try here. What I…

Have you ever wondered what your favorite author reads when they are not writing? I have and I don’t have an answer to share with you. But I have been thinking recently about the kind of material that I read.…

I’ve heard it said that on March 17th, everyone is Irish…or at least would like to be Irish. Perhaps that’s why I made the Chief Investigator of the Canadian Anti-Terrorism Service half Irish. Sean-Guy O’Dwyer-Lariviere is Irish from his mother,…

Everybody in most of North America, probably, can agree its been a hard winter. Temperatures in the minus 30s over the northern sections. Heavy snows over most of the south and north. Only a few tantalizing days with temperatures above…

Here is a topic not raised in The Chechen’s Revenge but one that could be addressed since Sean-Guy O’Dwyer-Lariviere certainly has some entanglements with women. Married twice and divorced twice, it would seem that he has some problems relating to…

Well, here it is already into February and nothing posted for 2014. Thanks for your patience. At this writing we are just days away from the Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia. The news beyond the sports aspects of the event…