Author Archives: Derek

In the late eighties, when I was in High School, we had things pretty easy. Yes, there was the occasional fight, but for the most part, things were pretty calm, and I never felt unsafe headed to my classes. By … Continue reading →

I have been lucky enough to have some extraordinary kids in my life. Not only my daughter, but many of her friends, are people of morality and character that far exceeds the majority of adults I know, or see on … Continue reading →

The recent comments regarding the activist kids who survived the Florida shooting have me puzzled. Pundits and trolls alike have been calling for these ‘kids’ to ‘keep quiet’, or ‘grow up’. I’m paraphrasing here, because the actual words used in … Continue reading →

Another shooting at an American High School. Looking back over my work, I realized that the first time I wrote on this subject was back in 2000, when a kindergartner brought a gun to school to ‘play’ with, and accidentally … Continue reading →

Stock has been ordered, my room is booked, and I’m gearing up to see *YOU* at CoastCon 41! Come see me at CoastCon, March 16, 17 & 18th, at the Mississippi Coast Coliseum, Biloxi. I don’t have my panel schedule … Continue reading →

odd question: why do people thrive upon reading the darkness within others? Do they feel excited, because the words are only on the page, and they feel safe? Emboldened to explore their own darker thoughts? Do they not realize that … Continue reading →

Follow the yellow brick link – – – https://nocaesthetic.blogspot.com/2018/01/were-all-mad-here.html

I somehow wasn’t getting the notifications that my domain was about to expire, so if you hit my URL over the weekend or Monday, and saw nothing – I apologies. As you can see, all systems are back up and … Continue reading →

‘every story ever told happened’; somewhere, in mind or in history, all we see happened somewhere. The Celts considered what happened in you mind to be as valid as what happened to your body. Other civilizations look to your tales … Continue reading →

Among the *many* patterns I’ve noticed is, these people almost always take their own lives, instead of facing what they’ve done, or going out ‘guns blazin’ as so many braggarts say they would. They are cowards, plain and simple. They … Continue reading →