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wever there s a good reason our forefathers were clear about the separation of church and state pursuing your religious freedom means not being forced to adopt one doctrine over all others and teaching children there is only one religion is the same as saying it is the only correct religion this plants the seed for the kind of religious intolerance and violence we have seen for hundreds of years in the middle east i would prefer we avoid that here in our country regardless of where we stand as individuals on policies that impact how we deal with immigration issues how we receive health care our stance on foreign policies and a woman s right to choose i would hope that we can all agree on the importance of keeping our most fundamental principles the right to vote for a president every four years and the right to religious freedom republican or democrat liberal or conservative christian or buddhist we need to stand together to protect those rights for ourselves and each other i m not interested in support for or against these points i have no interest in winning over anyone or starting a debate and if the previous paragraph is true then there shouldn t be a need for debate anyway thank you for reading ned share this share on facebook opens in new window facebook email a link to a friend opens in new window email share on pinterest opens in new window pinterest share on x opens in new window x share on linkedin opens in new window linkedin like loading posted on november 13 2024 categories recently probed and potentially sore subjects tags americans elections journalism life opinion presidential elections u s constitution 6 comments on two things we americans shouldn t have to argue about over the next four years then and now holy cow apparently your characters aren t the only things who change over time eight years ago this monday i signed my first book contract above left it was for a collection of my syndicated humor columns called humor at the speed of life i was still a journalist at the time and had finished a 16 year run of my column in 50 newspapers just look at that guy the youthful joy and hope in the face of a budding author his eyes are bright full of anticipation for the future i have arrived he s thinking the world is m y oyster sure i actually hate oysters because they initiate my gag reflex so bad i can launch one onto the wall from 6 feet away with surprising accuracy but still it s my oyster to gag on ahhhh it seems like a lifetime ago especially when you include the covid vortex that bent time and aged us all 20 years like when you leave half an avocado out over night continue reading then and now holy cow share this share on facebook opens in new window facebook email a link to a friend opens in new window email share on pinterest opens in new window pinterest share on x opens in new window x share on linkedin opens in new window linkedin like loading posted on march 29 2024 march 29 2024 categories recently probed and potentially sore subjects tags comedy culture funny humor life musings ned hickson writing 11 comments on then and now holy cow i know we ve changed but i m not ready to break up with my blog admittedly i feel like that guy who has every intention of being a good boyfriend but still ends up being a shmuck not because he s cheating or manipulative or always eats the last strip of bacon without even offering to split it but i have definitely allowed everything else in my writing life to take precedence over this blog which was the cornerstone to so many of the good things that transpired in my writing life since we first met back in 2004 but like a lot of long term relationships we ve grown and changed over the years some of it resulting from the daily monthly and yearly challenges of life some from a shift in friend circles and constantly evolving social and cultural pressures and some because sigh i found myself attracted to younger flashier platforms see schmuck truth be told my needs have changed and while i will always find comfort in this blogging relationship i recognize that neither of us are the same as when we first met not that it s a bad thing in fact if i was still the same person i was 20 years ago i d be worried or at the very least a case study at mental health conventions a lot has happened since those first blog posts i was two years away from divorce and hiding my unhappiness beneath layers of humor something that was both my fallback position and coping mechanism certainly better than drinking lashing out withdrawing or binge watching wrestle mania reruns or all of the above for that matter continue reading i know we ve changed but i m not ready to break up with my blog share this share on facebook opens in new window facebook email a link to a friend opens in new window email share on pinterest opens in new window pinterest share on x opens in new window x share on linkedin opens in new window linkedin like loading posted on march 20 2024 march 21 2024 categories recently probed and potentially sore subjects tags blog blogging humor life relationships 15 comments on i know we ve changed but i m not ready to break up with my blog the year of living danglingly my writing and editing partner ella is really great at attacking dangling participles a year ago today i received my official oregon business license establishing easy writer editing services as an llc and most importantly a source for the irs to tax it was a big leap especially for someone whose best mark in the long jump was about 4 feet but sometimes you have to take a risk in order to follow your passion and do what you love rather than just doing what you must i d spent 23 years as a journalist columnist and eventually newspaper editor before semi retiring and taking a job as a postal worker delivering mail and packages for the next year and a half during that time i met and worked with some amazing folks who perform a very difficult job i learned and delivered on nine different routes getting know which dogs and people would bite and which ones just wanted a cookie but all along i felt something was missing my mind wandered a lot story ideas kept nagging along with my love of working with others who lived there lives in pursuit of utilizing words to communicate educate and inspire i spent the last 6 months as a postal worker formulating and laying the groundwork for my exit strategy i needed a business name logo alcohol a brand website alcohol a list of services and a fee structure not to mention state and federal licensing a business bank account can t cross the money streams without a good money launderer a computer business phone printer more alcohol an invoicing and payment system so many details and what if after that investment of time and money it failed continue reading the year of living danglingly share this share on facebook opens in new window facebook email a link to a friend opens in new window email share on pinterest opens in new window pinterest share on x opens in new window x share on linkedin opens in new window linkedin like loading posted on october 17 2023 categories recently probed and potentially sore subjects tags life musings ned hickson writing 11 comments on the year of living danglingly book launched um now what a subtle reminder that my retirement may be in jeopardy writing and publishing a book is a lot like making a pizza you decide on what kind you re going to make then knead it until it s ready to rise next comes the secret sauce followed by the intricate layering of perfectly placed ingredients and don t you dare say pineapple in order to give it just the right flavor and finally sprinkle it with herbs like it s fairy dust all done well sort of i mean technically you could eat it at this point but you really should bake it first so now you need to decide what temperature how long pizza stone or sheet pan and after it s done baking should it be cut into 12 pieces 10 8 folded over and eaten like a giant calzone dripping down your shirt what about ranch dressing pepper flakes parmesan your completed book manuscript is like the uncooked pizza all the ingredients are there but until it s baked and cut into publishable slices no one is going to read it without running the risk of salmonella did i mention i was a chef for 10 years back in the 90s on aug 16 my northwest based mystery suspense novel no safe harbor officially went from pages of paper manuscript to 297 pages in a hardcover novel it was initially met with the level of fanfare one would expect for a humor columnist releasing his first self published crime novel insert crickets here note no crickets were harmed in the making of this blog post continue reading book launched um now what share this share on facebook opens in new window facebook email a link to a friend opens in new window email share on pinterest opens in new window pinterest share on x opens in new window x share on linkedin opens in new window linkedin like loading posted on october 16 2023 october 17 2023 categories recently probed and potentially sore subjects tags humor life musings ned hickson writing 13 comments on book launched um now what after 20 years it s the publication countdown to my first suspense novel am i appropriately suspenseful looking when i retired from journalism and started my own book and memoir editing service last october one of the primary reasons was to binge watch yellowstone try new vodkas become a tiktok sensation get back to my roots of fiction writing at the top of the list was dusting off an original manuscript for a suspense novel i had written a draft of back in 1996 called no safe harbor i was living in atlanta working as a chef but spent the better part of a year interviewing detectives crime scene technicians and members of the smyrna police department s internal affairs office in my free time among those i interviewed was a private investigator named jr noland who would only speak with me from pay phones to this day i still have no idea what he looks like and since the book was set in seattle my absolute favorite big city but i was in atlanta i had to research it the old fashioned way by catching a stagecoach to ok i m not that old but i did contact the seattle chamber of commerce and lied pretended i was moving there and needed all the information i could get hey google maps and internet searches weren t things back then continue reading after 20 years it s the publication countdown to my first suspense novel share this share on facebook opens in new window facebook email a link to a friend opens in new window email share on pinterest opens in new window pinterest share on x opens in new window x share on linkedin opens in new window linkedin like loading posted on june 29 2023 july 27 2023 categories recently probed and potentially sore subjects tags life musings mystery novel ned hickson writing 13 comments on after 20 years it s the publication countdown to my first suspense novel no safe harbor chapter 28 now in protective custody shane and jacob share what they know helping establish the details surrounding lynda bettington s murder by seattle police officers perkins and taylor with that knowledge fbi agent jack dalton devises a plan to close the noose around them and rick sparlo with help from shane chapter twenty eight shane and jacob were separated each of them accompanied by a handful of investigators from the fbi internal affairs and the washington bureau of investigation also on hand at the official request of russ braden were james kazad and walter aames in each interview room was a video camera recording their accounts of the events leading up to yesterday s incident on 35th street the debriefing took nearly three hours with shane and jacob elaborating on every question in as much detail as possible along with mead s testimony taken earlier that day a timeline began to form and by late afternoon a picture of lynda bettington s final hours came into focus the night of her death lynda was definitely leaving her husband the car packed with suitcases along with jacob s testimony that he and his mother were on their way to his grandmother s in oregon supported that as did the evidence of child abuse recorded by hollins in the crime lab the decision to stop at sharon reese s whether to stay the night or say goodbye was the turning point lynda was obviously unaware of reese s activities and certainly any connection to rick sparlo when officers taylor and perkins arrived lynda found herself hiding with jacob in the bedroom where together they overheard the threats and struggling that prompted lynda to rush to her sister s aid a move that made her a potential threat to perkins and taylor and ultimately rick sparlo when lynda left the condo with jacob and raced away in their dodge she probably wasn t aware perkins and taylor had seen her fearing what she could expose they began pursuit shortly after it was doubtful murder was their intent at that point what wasn t in doubt was their lack of knowledge concerning jacob they had no idea he existed and lynda managed to keep it that way by letting him out in lincoln park it appeared her plan was to come back for him or at the very least draw them away from jacob unfortunately the crash in the industrial district changed everything read more here previous chapters here share this share on facebook opens in new window facebook email a link to a friend opens in new window email share on pinterest opens in new window pinterest share on x opens in new window x share on linkedin opens in new window linkedin like loading posted on june 23 2023 categories recently probed and potentially sore subjects tags mystery novel ned hickson writing 2 comments on no safe harbor chapter 28 no safe harbor chapters 26 27 as detectives kazad and aames prepare to expose what they know to internal affairs new revelations change everything they thought they knew meanwhile shane and jacob s captors turn out to be something unexpected as the tables begin to shift against rick sparlo chapter twenty six when the door to braden s office opened both kazad and aames were surprised by the sight of tabitha mills standing in the far corner of the room braden rose and motioned to a cluster of chairs around the edge of his desk have a seat gentlemen as kazad sat he noticed a thick manila folder held closed with a wide rubber band resting on the desk in front of braden gentlemen i know you ve met officer mills before officer said kazad i thought she was with child protective services she works for me at least for the time being i asked for help from the state attorney general s office because i needed someone who wouldn t be recognized from i a i m not following you russ said hammond there s a lot that we ve kept from you braden confessed you have two officers we believe are murderers but that s only part of it only part of what said hammond his shock quickly 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