Human TraffickingFor information about human trafficking in the Pacific, here’s a great novel! Kidnapped from the Caribbean, by Todd Duff. “Based on true stories of modern-day piracy, human trafficking, smuggling, and the drug trade involving the theft of charter vessels and private yachts in the Caribbean and Central America, Kidnapped from the Caribbean is aContinueContinue reading “Zander's Island Resources”
Author Archives: RLMartin
Tacoma Chinese Expulsion References
I’m starting a new novel about a love story between a white woman and a Chinese man in Tacoma in 1883-1885, leading up to the expulsion of the Chinese from Tacoma in November 1885. To prepare, I’m reading a lot of articles from the Tacoma Daily Ledger from those early years of Tacoma. I planContinueContinue reading “Tacoma Chinese Expulsion References”
Dante Bellafonte’s Boss
Dante Bellafonte’s Boss Just LOVED to eat spaghetti sauce. He ate it with noodles, He ate it with bread, He ate with poodles, He ate it with Fred. He ate it with chips, He ate it with Laura, He ate it with Fauna, He ate it with Flora. After rubbing his belly, he’d say howContinueContinue reading “Dante Bellafonte’s Boss”
No Taste for the Corruptible
No Taste for the CorruptibleI often used to wonder how the genealogy of Jesus really made any difference because it traces his lineage through Joseph who, as we know, had nothing to do with the conception of Jesus. Mary was a virgin. She was impregnated by the Holy Spirit not by Joseph. Someone once explainedContinueContinue reading “No Taste for the Corruptible”
Children’s Poems
Busy Mr. Thelby “Tell me,” said old Mister Thelby. “Tell me Walter Hugh, Why are you so blue?” “Cause I’m bored and it’s cold, and there’s nothing here to do.” “Cause you’re bored and it’s cold? Why, then there’s a million things to do.” “Blah,” said Walter. “I’m certain that’s not true?” “Maybe not forContinueContinue reading “Children’s Poems”
The Clearing of Each Heart
“For evil in the open is but evil from within that has been let out. The main battlefield for good is not the open ground of the public arena but the small clearing of each heart. Meanwhile, the lot of widows and homeless children is very hard, and it is to their defense, not God’sContinueContinue reading “The Clearing of Each Heart”
One part doubt, equal part faith
One part doubt, equal part faithAdoration June 27, 2014I came here tonight somewhat like a person dragging a moaning child to the dentist. My spirit rebels. Is it my spirit or my mind, my logos or my pathos? Perhaps it is logos. I doubt. I confess this sin: that I doubt. It is a deeplyContinueContinue reading “One part doubt, equal part faith”
Double-bagging
In 1986, when I was sixteen, my best friend Jon helped me get a job at the local Safeway in Oklahoma City bagging groceries. We thought we were cool because we could earn money to buy our own Polo cologne, fill up our tanks with gas for cruising on Friday nights, and buy our ownContinueContinue reading “Double-bagging”
Thoughts and Sayings
These sayings came from my journals over the past 20-30 years. A house divided makes a pretty good duplex. I’m not all good, but I ain’t half bad. I have found that all of my problems tend to resolve themselves as soon as I have taken care of them. What lies behind us and whatContinueContinue reading “Thoughts and Sayings”
The power of a woman’s wish
In America today, it is a curious reality that a woman’s wish has the power to determine what is human and what is not human.
RL Martin 