Why I Write
When I was a kid, the library was a sanctuary for me. I was an abused kid, and I needed to get away from home. Books were a way to step...
PHOENIX MCDONALD WRITES
When I was a kid, the library was a sanctuary for me. I was an abused kid, and I needed to get away from home. Books were a way to step...
I still remember something from when I was a kid in school and I use it all the time when im writing. It was an activity we had to do,...
I'm back! It was a long winter and I'm not going into a lot of personal detail here. Suffice it to say I've spent most of the last three...
I used to do these on my Facebook blog, but I'm shifting them to my website. For those new to following this blog, my brain cancer and...
I've hunted most of my life. I've owned guns and shot them (at targets). For a long time, I believed that as long as we were teaching...
I have always identified closely with the phoenix. It represents destruction, rising from the ashes, and reinvention. My life has been...
It has become quite common to use the term "grooming" when referring to politicians, religious organizations, and specific disliked...
I was listening to holiday songs the other day when I had an epiphany. You see, so often when we 'listen' to music, even when we sing...
Elon Musk bought Twitter for 44 billion dollars. That's an amount of money most people think they can fathom, but honestly really cannot....
Dedicating this Veteran's Day to the thousands of Black and Indigenous veterans who volunteered and were drafted, beginning in World War...
Yes, it's all still swirling around. Such a controversy. The videos of thrilled children and even children who want to see it and don't...
My son and I were talking about all the controversy surrounding Black actors lately, and we started talking about other roles than the...
Over the course of my life, I've seen and heard other people talk about their close relationships with their parents. I've always...
Conservatives have been ranting left and right about schools adding litter boxes to bathrooms for children identifying as "furries" to...
I live in Newberg, Oregon. Even just saying that much makes me afraid. I'm exposing myself to anyone who might seek me out, out of hate....
This is from IMDB’s trivia section for THE HATEFUL EIGHT: The guitar that Daisy Domergue played while singing "Jim Jones at Botany Bay"...
There are people who need to obliterate their fear of oblivion after death so completely that they create an entire structure of an...
James Earl Jones is retiring as the voice of Darth Vader. (He is 91, after all.) He already had prior to the filming of the Obi Wan...
A brief history of tipping: The practice of tipping originated in the Middle Ages. When masters had servants, they would ‘tip’ them with...
A certain city in Minnesota recently held an all-ages drag show. Protestors showed up from as far away as Texas to claim the children...