“Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.”

I am an architect who became a part-time writer by chance and a paid one by necessity.

Back in 2003, a publication I had become interested in called The Patriot Post put out a call for new writers. At the time, the extent of my writing experience was putting together a newsletter for the Young Republican club I had been in as well as the 40 or so GOP voters who lived in my precinct, plus a few letters to the editor that ended up making my local newspaper. Yet I got the job as one of their anonymous scribes.

After I moved to Maryland in 2004, the idea of having my own internet publication took root. At that point, blogging software had become widely available and in 2005 I began a Blogspot site that soon evolved into my own domain and website called monoblogue. Over the next few years, I built monoblogue into a nationally-regarded site that mainly covered local and state politics.

Then came the Great Recession, and I was tossed out of work. Since I had a gig with The Patriot Post, I asked for and received a larger role in its writing, and made it into my first paying writing job. A few others have come and gone, but they’ve remained rock-steady for the last 14 years. I also made a few dollars here and there from those who rattled the tip jar or paid for advertising on monoblogue as well as a series of sponsored posts.

While I’ve long since come back to work at my full-time avocation and moved on to live in the First State of Delaware, the appeal of Substack was that I didn’t have to keep fighting to maintain a WordPress site or keep a domain, plus it gave me the opportunity to begin a subscriber-based entity when I felt it was time. As of this past June, the option is now available.

So here I am. I hope you enjoy my page here as well as The Knothole, which is my Substack with an emphasis on baseball and its history.

Every time I see a Gadsden flag, I know there’s another one of us latter-day Patriots out there.

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I used to do a blog called monoblogue, but now my job is to turn that rocky, thorny, and trod-upon soil into ground receptive to the missionary's seed, just like in Matthew 13.

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An architect by day and writer by night. My work isn't just on Substack, but appears on The Patriot Post, too. I have also written two books, with the last being The Rise and Fall of the TEA Party (2019).