Do You Know the Big Pharma Quaalude Meth Story? You Ought To Know I am writing because methamphetamine use has stolen my brother’s brain, and my heart hurts when I think he may not get it back. He is 18 months younger than me, but when I visited him in…

Urgent Call To Parenting Skills Intervention/Another Work of Fiction By Shawn Schmid Ten years ago, my wife and her sister were discussing their concern about the drug and alcohol abuse of their brother. My wife said, sister, you can not stop our brother just by saying that he is crazy…

This week, my wife and I tried out RV Camping for the first time. We have one of the smaller trailers; it’s about 20 feet long, a Wolf Pup, made by Forest River, a giant RV manufacturer with a hundred models to choose from. Some have chandeliers and temperature-controlled wine…

I am Reading The Largesse of the Sea Maiden By Denis Johnson, right now; it is copyright 2018 even though he died last year, and reading on the cover page the list of his previous books, I decided to write a review of Jesus’ Son, a book by Johnson that…

Everyone Has a Childhood My childhood started in 1960, and I bet it was just as good as yours was — we each have had one. …

TMR Essay As we were talking about our Life Stories, a friend on Medium suggested that I should publish this essay I wrote, on Medium. This essay could be entitled, “My Thirties”, in the context of our Life Story discussion, and I must credit the copyright is from the October 11, 2013 issue of the blog, “Literature on Lockdown” that belongs to The Missouri Review (TMR), and is edited by Alison A. Balaskovits.

Ten Reasons Why Purchasing an Automobile is No Fun Isn’t it? Why not? I have seen many commercials during January, so far, that are advertisements for cars. All of my information is anecdotal, my opinion, but I believe that everything I write is true. Multiple commercials on my local television…