I was born in Alaska, then before I can remember, we moved to Washington where I grew up. Or started to. Later, I served in the Marine Corps stationed at Camp Lejeune in North Carolina where I met my wife. In a long and dramatic turn of events, we ended up in Southern Ohio where we currently reside, and operate a small healthier fare to-go eatery known as the Happy Turtle in West Union.

These days, I spend most of my days working--which I am blessed to labor with my wife, or I'd hardly get to see her! After that, I get a small smidgen of time that divides between writing and learning self-sufficiency.

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• Endless Miles on May 25, 2012
  
  An interesting read and vivid. Joshua Flats seems like a town I might have driven through. If you ever felt trapped, in a rut, this is up your alley. The beginning lags a bit, but you're not on it too long before you run into some surprises and the pace picks up. I would like a sequel.
  
• Txt on Aug. 03, 2012
  
  Very effective thriller. Had the sense from the beginning that things were not all as they should be, and the nonchalant, real life prose make you want to scream "pay attention!" to Mathieson's characters. By the end I was definitely involved. On the other side, I was a little bit jarred at first by the in-text txting. It just sort of a hiccup. The format took a little getting used to, the way it breaks the text. By the end the function adds to the tension, but I'm on the fence about whether it might have been better as txting as dialogue or just in a line rather than block. Very good.
  
• Chasya’s Awakening on Aug. 12, 2012
  
  I enjoyed the flavor of Chasya's Awakening. To read the name of Yeshua lifted up in an artistic expression of praise, especially set in the Holy Land, was stirring. The portrayal of paradise, like Eden, as a perfect and wonderful park with all of the goodness that God intended with children playing in the berry patches, made me happy. I especially found the parallel scenes in the spiritual entertaining with the demon and his apprentice. This story became more enjoyable as it progressed, however, overall it left me feeling unsatisfied. It was a good story, it just didn't finished. It was as if the majority of the scenes were only there to advance the plot, but we never really get to know the characters. They aren't given enough room to show us what they are like, and there are some interesting characters here in interesting real life conflicts. I wanted to see more of their human side. Stop summarizing so much of the "non-plot" conversation and show it. Little things tell a lot. A lot of potential here, but I would have rated it higher if it was more fleshed out.