On October 18, 2025 I exercised my constitutional rights by participating in one of the demonstrations around the country. I was one of over 7,000,000 people in around 2700 protests around the country.
Columbia, Maryland had more than 6,500 people. 30 percent bigger than the demonstration in June.
Despite the two cars that drove by flipping demonstrators the bird, it was a peaceful event with speeches, signs, and waving at cars.
The only issues around the country were 20+ counter protesters, some of whom had weapons, that were arrested.
There were some creative signs and costumes. Here are a few pictures.
It’s been out of print since my previous publisher went out of business last year. The road to re-publishing entailed extra editing and reformatting. I love the way it looks.
It’s hard to be who you are meant to be.
Especially when your powers can get you killed.
Eighteen-year-old Tatiana is running from her past and her star-touched powers eight years after a meteor devastates earth’s population.
Fleeing the persecution of those like her, Tatiana seeks refuge in a small town she once visited. But this civil haven, in a world where society has broken down, is beginning to crumble. Will Tatiana flee or stay and fight for the new life she has built? Only by harnessing the very forces that haunt her can Tatiana save her friends…and herself.
“A unique and finely crafted novel, the characters touched my heart as I was drawn into their plight and compelled to finish!” — New York Times bestselling author Maria V. Snyder
“Star Touched is fast-paced with well-defined characters and dialog that snaps. The ravaged, post-technological American society is depicted with sure strokes. The story draws one in and keeps one reading. And that’s exactly what one wants from a book.” — A. L. Sirois, author of THE BOHEMIAN MAGICIAN
“A great YA dystopian novel exploring the challenges of being different, acceptance, maturity, and friendship.” — Steven Southard
“Unless the peace that follows recognizes that the whole world is one neighborhood and does justice to the whole human race, the germs of another world war will remain as a constant threat to mankind.” February 12, 1943
“We have faith that future generations will know that here in the middle of the twentieth century, there came a time when men of good will found a way to unite, and produce, and fight to destroy the forces of ignorance, and intolerance, and slavery, and war.“
This photo was taken at the FDR memorial in DC. If you haven’t visited, you should.
I don’t think this quote needs any explanation.
“We must scrupulously guard the civil rights and civil liberties of all citizens, whatever their background. We must remember that any oppression, any injustice, any hatred, is a wedge designed to attack our civilization.”
Here are some more quotes from Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
“I see one-third of a nation ill-housed, ill-clad, ill-nourished.”
“The test of our progress in not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much. It is whether we provide enough for those who have too little.”
Let’s not forget, that FDR and his programs pulled the USA out of a depression and allowed us to grow into a great nation, one that is presently being attacked from within. It is the government’s duty to protect its citizens and help them in times of need.
Have you been to the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial in DC?
FDR did some great things. He pulled our country out of a depression and started many of the programs being destroyed today. Here is one of his quotes:
No country, however rich, can afford the waste of its human resources. Demoralization caused by vast unemployment is our greatest extravagance. Morally, it is the greatest menace to our social order.
