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The objective of this curriculum is to help students understand human biology, the biological consequences of trauma, and the leading science on the subject of healing trauma. This class will be emotionally triggering for virtually all those involved, and any assignment or activity or discussion is presented as optional, contingent on the needs of the student as perceived by the student. Also, it is important for the instructor to frequently repeat an explicit boundary clarifying the purpose...

The objective of this curriculum is to help students critically examine their ideologies–or the stories they tell themselves. This curriculum was born out of the Revolution course I taught last year (2019). The Matrix curriculum is my attempt to explore ways to help students broaden their understanding of themselves and the world. The motivation I have for creating this curriculum arises largely from how concerned I am with the way children seem to be limited, confined and isolated by the...

It's been a long time coming, but now it's here. The President signed an executive order to help protect America from EMP. Those of you who have been following this blog for any length of time are aware of the wealth of information contained within it concerning the country’s vulnerable critical infrastructure.

The subject is important to me because I am a citizen of the country. Also, our vulnerable critical infrastructure is the mechanism the bad guy uses in Patriarch Run to threaten the cou...

There have been enough requests for the Revolution! curriculum I am creating with my high school English class that I decided to post a working document about what we’ve done and where we’re heading. Feedback and suggestions are welcome, as I’m creating this curriculum as I go and by no means think that it is finished.

Feel free to share the curriculum, but please do so by sharing this blogpost so that edits and changes can be made with version control.

As a qualifying statement, I feel the nee...

I’ll be at the Bemis Public Library’s Love Your Local Author Showcase Saturday, February 16, 10 a.m.-2 p.m., Littleton, Colorado. Many other local authors will be at the event!

This blog is an announcement of sorts. I’m coming out of a months-long illness, and I’m able to write again. That’s a relief!

For those of you who have asked about the next book… I bought the rights to Patriarch Run back from the publisher. Our idea is to re-release that book as the prequel to the Billy Erikson Series, to which there are three completed books thus far. The series takes place in Patriarch after the collapse. Collapse, by the way, will be the new title of Patriarch Run.

In The Fo...

This morning Dr. Peter Pry sent me a draft of the article below, which he co-authored with Ambassador R. James Woolsey. The piece was published in The Washington Times, and I thought it was worth posting here. It covers recent legislation to secure the grid, which of course is a major theme in my thriller Patriarch Run. I should also disclose that Dr. Pry endorsed the realism in Patriarch Run. You can learn more about the threat to the grid at my Discussion Guide.

The Washington Times Defense...

What you'll find below is one of the most thorough resources available (for your own use and to pass along to your family and friends) about the threat to the power grid.

What's in it:

Videos from credible sources such as NASA, National Geographic, the BBC, the National Academies of Sciences, journalist Ted Koppel and othersLinks to source documents, including expert testimony to Congress, Presidential orders, US Senate bills, intelligence reports and other government and industry papers

This re...

Below is a rich resource for those wanting more information about EMP. You'll find the entire manuscript of Dr. Peter Vincent Pry's testimony before the House Committee on Homeland Security, including:

Dr. Pry's advocacy for proposed legislation to harden our infrastructureA version of which passed the Senate in December 2016A thorough primer on EMPNuclear, Natural, and Non-Nuclear EMPAn explanation of how EMP would create mass casualties

In the interest of full disclosure, I should also state...

Here's something I never thought I'd see. My friend Paul Ehrlich was invited to the Vatican to discuss "how to save the natural world on which we depend." The workshop will take place on 27 February through 1 March, 2017. This interests me because Paul endorsed my eco-thriller Patriarch Run, in which the bad guy intends to take down the power grid in order to stop the Sixth Extinction. I'm glad the bad guy in the story is fictional because I hope there's a better way to deal with this pressin...