D. W. Wilma5 days ago3 minCopy of For Memorial DayBob Snyder was my best friend in high school. We met as members of the McClellan Cadet Squadron, Civil Air Patrol in Sacramento. We both dreamed of military ...
D. W. WilmaApr 292 minThe Chapman IncidentGrey Gold is set against the backdrop of Civil War San Francisco and an attempt by Confederate agents to steal California gold. Every other week during those...
D. W. WilmaApr 31 minTaste of FreedomThis is the third in the series featuring my fictionalized character Phyllis Wallace Lewis. Phyllis was a real person held as a slave by my ancestors in Kent...
D. W. WilmaFeb 131 minTrace of HopeThis is the next release in the adventures of Phyllis, the woman freed from slavery in Down the River, a real person. The chronology of her life is different...
D. W. WilmaDec 22, 20192 minSerendipityThe origin of this book came in the early 1990s in my family history research. I stumbled across a query in an old journal mentioning my ancestors and asking...
david98014May 2, 20191 minThe End of the StoryI love historical research and crafting up a story set in another time. I add the forces of the time, the character’s needs and wants, and who he or she migh...
david98014Aug 16, 20172 minThe Lost CauseThe tragedy in Charlottesville and ensuing cacophony has inspired me to offer my perspective of the history involved. The monuments in question, hundreds, ev...
david98014May 13, 20173 minA Measure of SuccessThe email was a surprise and then it wasn’t. The man was in my scout troop in San Francisco thirty years ago and as a teen was not the best example of the pr...
david98014Nov 5, 20161 minOnline discourseI am being charitable in the term discourse. Recently I added a comment to a Youtube file, the audio of fire department radio transmissions following a spect...
david98014Oct 10, 20161 minComplete SentencesIn the cacophony that is the presidential campaign I have not seen any discussion how candidate Trump seems unable to formulate complete sentences and cohere...
david98014Aug 17, 20166 minBigfoot200Bigfoot 200 is an endurance run from south of Mount St. Helens to Randle, Washington. It is put on by a company that stages one smaller race here and a simil...
david98014Apr 2, 20161 minMy First PodcastI was honored to be interviewed on the Writers Groupie podcast. I moved my desk around so that my bookcase was in the background and I raised my desk to the ...
david98014Feb 1, 20162 minThe American RevolutionWe recently observed the 150th anniversary of the 13th Amendment, the ban on slavery. Slavery—involuntary servitude, bonded servitude, etc.—had been the law ...
david98014Dec 30, 20152 minAccountabilityThe continuing and tragedy of questionable police shootings has generated much noise and consumed many hours of cable TV news bandwidth. I have learned to cl...
david98014Dec 8, 20151 minDOJ to investigate Chicago PDThis has to go with, “I’m shocked, shocked to find there’s gambling going on in here.” The Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division has spent the last seve...
david98014Jul 15, 20151 minMonumentsThe aftermath of the tragedy in Charleston has triggered a lively and not always civil discussion on the action in South Carolina to remove the Confederate B...
david98014Jul 1, 20151 minTrue DetectiveThis HBO series started last year starring Woody Harrelson and Matthew McConnaughey as a couple of detectives in bayou country investigating serial killings ...
david98014Jun 15, 20153 minPolice Killings……or media-speak, “officer-involved shootings.” But these don’t include choking, taser, or blunt force trauma deaths. In any event, deaths and serious injurie...
david98014May 11, 20151 minWest Point and Cadet Benjamin O. DavisThe U.S. Military Academy at West Point has named a barracks after General Benjamin O. Davis, ’32, the second African American to graduate. He went on to a d...
david98014May 6, 20154 minSo Long DickAn old family friend passed away about six weeks ago. Last weekend I flew to San Mateo, California and attended a memorial service for him on behalf of my fa...