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Recently my family spent a week in London, a rescheduled trip that had been cancelled due to Covid. My wife and I wanted our boys to experience the city where I had spent a month in college and my wife had spent a summer while in college. We saw all the sites and, as a…

Imagine being a student at a school where bullying is not just ignored by educators but implicitly encouraged by district leaders and state politicians. Welcome to Owasso High School in Oklahoma. As one student said about bullying at the school, “…there’s no point in going to any kind of administration or teachers about it because…

I read a lot of books. Okay, I take that back. I start a lot of books. As a writer, I like to keep up with what other writers are creating and the books that are resonating with audiences. With some books I start, I’ll wince and groan until my wife (who reads next to…

I’m excited to announce the launch of a new online bullying prevention information center at www.circlepointbullying.com. Over a decade ago, I was invited by the Boston Public School District to create a comprehensive whole-school bullying prevention program, which I called CirclePoint. The program was piloted with great success. In order to make its information widely…

Given this week’s COP28 gathering on climate change, I posed a question on FB for my Roman Catholic friends who have voted for political candidates who deny climate science. Pope Francis recently issued an apostolic exhortation on climate change, calling the issue “one of the principal challenges facing society.” He says that climate change is…

Bound copies of my manuscript for Knight Without Ceremony arrived today. YAY! I had copies made so my wife could read the book (no, I don’t make her read drafts, that would be mean). But what did I see when I opened the box? ULINE packaging! BOO! ULINE is a shipping supply company in Pleasant…

I’m thrilled to announce that KWC was selected as a semifinalist for the 2023 BookLife Prize!

I’m excited to announce that Knight Without Ceremony: Insurrection was selected as a quarter finalist in the YA / middle grade fiction category for the 2023 BookLife Prize! Go Ettan! Go Ayana! Go Liela! Go Kemo! Go Drogue! And yes, why not, go Blu! (Blu’s a mule).

If you are looking for my thoughts, please visit my website, circlepointprogram.org, or find me on the program’s Facebook page. I frequently post about bullying prevention on that site. Due to my current occupation, which requires a security clearance, I reserve my personal musings for my fiction. I will post writing-related news on this site…

I always enjoy when my personal reading and my bullying prevention work intersect. I’m reading “The 57 Bus” by Dashka Slater, a wonderful nonfiction work about two high school students, one thoughtless and impulsive act, and the consequences that followed for them both. The story of the students is fascinating, and Ms. Slater brings just…