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Tomorrow’s coffee, Peru Chirinos Cajamarca, which I made today as always, along with a package of Korean Pork Barbeque Jerky, is courtesy of my son and daughter-in-law. I may be sick but I have a great life.

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Treatment’s at Mercy Hospital in St. Louis. Met today for a second opinion with an oncologist from Barnes, the more famous Cancer Center here in St. Louis, and had the original treatment plan confirmed. Chemo and radiation begins on Wednesday.

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I discovered really quite by accident and coincidence just last week I have cancer. My urologist was looking for something in my bladder which wasn’t there, but the scan showed something wrong in my throat. Having already had a routine colonoscopy scheduled, I called the GI Doc, who agreed to scope me on both ends, which is why I was able to have this done so quickly. I woke up from the procedure…

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Recently completed the "bible" for a TV series for this, with the original script being a two-hour pilot. Eight episodes a season, for five seasons. I took a piece of stone from the Berlin Wall near Checkpoint Charlie before the fall of the Iron Curtain, while having a machine gun pointed at me. Yes, I was a foolish young man then and supposedly know better now than to take on too much. Even so…

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Just finished a new, feature-length, spec script, " The Cromleys of Crumbly", the logline for which reads:Patricia Cromley somehow manages to escape the small, Southern town her family established two hundred earlier as a Freethinker colony and never looks back. When her mother passes away, however, she dutifully returns to fulfill her responsibilities as executor; learn what became of a missing…

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Joseph Nye, who coined the term “Soft Power” in a 1990 book,Bound to Lead: The Changing Nature of American Power, defined the term as existing “when one country gets other countries to want what it wants….” Once upon a time (which was in 2016, by the way), the USA was the Light of the World. Now, however, with the election of the Charlatan-in-Chief and the ascendance of the Korporate Khristian…

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