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Have I Told You Lately?
The day has finally arrived when most of us step up the affection game by sending flowers, cards, candy, cute and cuddly stuffed animals, and other gifts to the people we adore. We dress up, go out to...
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No Key, No Problem: How The Bad Guys Get In (Good Guys, Too)
Set of picks, tension wrenches, and a broken key remover. Padlock shims. Used to open spring-operated padlocks. PRO-LOK7 is designed to open any standard ACE 7-pin lock. 62-piece lock pick set Manual...
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School Violence: Early Warning Signs For Danger
Violence in schools seems to be on the rise, and to help combat the danger professionals are paying close attention to early warning signs—behavioral and emotional signals. The signs, while important...
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Test Your DNA Knowledge
DNA is known as the blueprint of life, and it’s everywhere. Well everywhere except in your red blood cells. And we all know that law enforcement uses DNA testing to help solve crimes. To do so,...
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Intimate Partner Homicide: He Would Never Really Do It…Right?
Intimate partner homicide is the 7th leading cause of premature death for women in the United States. It’s the number one cause of premature death among African American women between the ages of...
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15 Fascinating Scientific Facts About Siblings
While we have spent a lifetime with our siblings, getting to know every quirk, trait and annoying habit that they have, we often don’t stop to think of the real impact that our sisters and brothers...
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Running Away
Well, it’s finally here…moving day. Yep, my bags are packed and we’re off on another adventure. So…no blog today. But, after the dust settles and Mayberry is in my rear-view mirror, I’ll be back at...
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Top 10 Things You Shouldn’t Say To The Police
Cops are often the target for some pretty nasty verbal ammunition. In fact, they endure some things that would make the average person explode into a fit of rage. But police officers have to stand...
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A Few Of My Heroes
The Graveyard Shift is just another blog to many of you. But if you could take a moment to step behind the curtain, you’d see that it’s actually much more than just a blog. There are dozens of people...
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Are You Writing What You THINK You Know?
I’ve been writing this blog for nearly five years, and I have to say it’s sometimes tough to come up with a new topic each and every day. However, as long as writers continue to write stories about...
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A Night In Savannah: Riverboats, Paula Deen, and…Murder
Officers C.M. Steel and I.C. Crooks parked their patrol cars in their side-by-side driveways. Both got out and stretched, obviously exhausted after working the graveyard shift. They’d been friends,...
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My Grandson, a 12-Year-Old Champion
How long does it take to become a champion mixed martial arts fighter? Three years? Five? Maybe even ten long and grueling years? Well, how about less than a year? That’s right, last February (2013)...
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Support Earns Ad Space For Books!
A few days ago several writers answered my call to help our grandson, Tyler, on his quest to compete in the World Kickboxing Association’s North American Tournament 2014. It was just 13 months ago...
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The Trip
We began our cross-country journey last Tuesday afternoon, in Savannah, Ga. The marathon drive ended this afternoon near San Francisco, Ca. Along the way we passed through countless cities, counties,...
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Tyler Proffitt Wins NAGA Championship Title: Thanks Author Sponsors
I want to start off by thanking the people who made my trip to NAGA (North American Grappling Association) possible. Without their sponsorship I would not have been able to accomplish my dream of...
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Annie Oakley Lives in My Closet…with My Great-Grandfather
Annie Oakley once lived near my great-grandparents. Annie was 53 when she built her home near my relatives’ farm. At the time—1913—my great grandfather was 24, so it’s likely the two never socialized....
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