When I walk my dog, he likes to stop and smell everything. It’s really frustrating and slow going. I mean, he’ll stop and smell another dog’s turd, for Pete’s sake. Sometimes, I have to pull him away from it for fear he’ll ingest it. Today, on our walk, I got to thinking that maybe GodContinueContinue reading “A walk with God”
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Rough on Rats
Note I apologize if anything I say sounds like it is motivated from racism. It is not my intent to stir up controversy but to explain things so that both sides can better understand each other. The Chinese diet may have been a cause of prejudice against them in the nineteenth century. The smell ofContinueContinue reading “Rough on Rats”
Writing MIDI characters?
While revising one of my novels for publication, I started to realize that my characters don’t always act in consistently believable ways. I tend to throw in actions and emotions wherever the actions and emotions are needed, regardless of whether a real person, that character I am creating, would have actually done or said thoseContinueContinue reading “Writing MIDI characters?”
Pestiferous Chinese
I’m starting to think that one of the main reasons that whites were against Chinese was that they were being used as slave labor. Ostensibly, it’s a moral argument. But the term Pestiferous Chinese betrays a deep racism that underlies this excuse. Daily Ledger, Tacoma, WA Territory September 30, 1885 Geronimo’s little band of ApachesContinueContinue reading “Pestiferous Chinese”
Zander's Island Resources
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”
Zander’s Island Resources
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”
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”
Common Goals and a Common Core
The author Bo Yang, who died in exile on Green Island off the coast of Taiwan, once said that the reason Chinese people don’t get along is that God knows there are so many of them if they actually did cooperate, they’d take over the world. And in the Bible, the story of the towerContinueContinue reading “Common Goals and a Common Core”
First post
Hi, This is my first WordPress post. Just trying to figure it out. I hope to post some short stories, poems, and other writings here soon.
RL Martin 