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My favorite job title is Poet. Why? No license, no union, no credentialism. If you can learn, you will. If you can't, you won't waste my time. I grow regardless.
I’m not like you. That’s why you should listen to me. I’m in an empathy of opposites with everyone: All they see are reasons to complain, when all I want to do is dance. I know why we are the way we are and how we can learn to do better with each other – making everything better.
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FREE Willie
A 100% FREE collection of some of the best of the Ramblin’ Gamblin’ Willie stories. You will want to read all of my books, but here is a cost-free way to get started.Buy my books at Amazon.com
Dusty
An elegy of hope and love.
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Traindancing
Bedtime stories for your inner child from The Mall of Misfit Families.
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Las Vegas Redemption
Pastor Trey Coyle and the reincarnation of Sarno’s Ghost.
Kindle
Shyly’s delight
Work, play and love like a Labrador.
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Nine empathies
Apprehending love and malice.
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Father’s Day
More Married. More Husband.
More Father. More Man.
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Loving Cathleen
A Love To Live Up To
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Sun City
Loved ones die. Life goes on.
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Losing Slowly
How Las Vegas lost its mojo – and how to get it back
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Christmas at the speed of life...
Ramblin' Gamblin' Willie's Christmas stories
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The Unfallen
A love story
Print | KindleMy other writing isn't collected in one place, but here's a shopping list for finding the best of it:
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- BloodhoundBlog – a national real estate weblog I started and contribute to. Much of the content there will be real estate related, but everything I write is focused on the self, and this is best represented in the longer essays.
- SplendorQuest.com – a weblog devoted to celebrating the uniquely human life.
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The autopsy of Mister Maybe’s divorce: “Silence and distance and lies are all you need to destroy any marriage.”
From The Unfallen, how uncommitted men screw up their mariages. –GSS “I think maybe you can’t make those vows and commitments with anyone except the right person.” Her hand was on the table and he laid his atop it and … Continue reading
Three blasts from my past: Love, sex and making your marriage last forever.
Father’s DayMore Married. More Husband. More Father. More Man.Available at Amazon.comI made a series of videos in 2014 for The 21 Convention on love, sex, marriage and family. Anthony Johnson dissolved our affiliation after I spoke at his event last … Continue reading
An illustrator’s guide to making your marriage last a lifetime.
A fully-committed man’s four hugging appendages deployed to their best advantage.As part of everything else I’m doing, I am hauling marriage back from the abyss. I am very much a champion of the family, but your marriage is what makes … Continue reading
A question for pro-gay-marriage libertarians: Isn’t it well past time to admit you were wrong?
Nothing says ‘libertarian’ quite like the faithful capitulation to Marxist tyranny.Photo by: Ross AngusI don’t pay much attention to libertarians. They start wrong and stay wrong, with politics rather than the underlying ethics of self-adoration, which is why they cough … Continue reading
How should the Supreme Court decide gay marriage? The real issue is the establishment clause.
The Supreme Court is taking up the issue of gay marriage today, pushing us just a little bit closer to civil war. A government of men and not of laws? Not hardly. We are by now a delphic kleptocracy, divining … Continue reading
The how and why of a happy marriage and family in five minutes.
Father’s DayMore Married. More Husband. More Father. More Man.Available at Amazon.comMichael McNally of The Dream Executive interviewed me recently for his podcast. The full episode will be available soon, but here’s a short clip that’s near and dear to my … Continue reading
A better marriage? A better family life? It begins with the empathy for the opposite.
When you praise your kids’ virtues the way you do your dog’s, you’ll love your whole family better.Photo by: wsilverIn Nine empathies, I raise the idea of the empathy for the opposite, trying to make conjectures about another person’s mental … Continue reading
Screw off, fake priests! How to get governmentally-organized-crime out of your marriage.
To surrender all recourse upon default is the best assurance you can give that you intend never to default – and it is one hell of an incentive not to!Photo by: Jean L.The Cautious are always cowards: Theirs is a … Continue reading
Women can’t fix #marriage and #family. Only men can. My new book “Father’s Day” shows how.
More married. More husband.More father. More man.I would love to excite your interest and incite your action: I want to save a few dozen-million marriages, and I need your help. Father’s Day will save marriages – it already is pre-release … Continue reading
A perfect marriage? No risk of divorce? Yours FREE with this business card-sized pre-nuptial agreement.
The Business Card Pre-Nup: If one or both of you does not want to make this strong of a commitment, you’re not ready to be married to each other.Click the image to download a printable PDF copy of the agreement.A … Continue reading
What makes a good marriage so good? Simple: A man in charge.
What does a happy marriage look like? That’s easy: It looks like a man in charge.Marriage is the man’s relationship from the outset, and it fails, when it does, when he stops wanting it enough to drive it. Repeat that: … Continue reading
The Church of Splendor: Make your marriage last forever.
Why do some marriages seem to be so perfectly easy? Why don’t they all work that way? 10 MST Sunday morning. See the service live and sing hosannahs in real time or choir subjunctively by subsequent stream.
Getting #marriage so right that you manage to stay married all the way to the end of the day.
Want to stay married forever? Try staying married every day.When you hire an Irishman to speak, there are three words you never have to pay for. They’re not in my script, but you can hear them in the video of … Continue reading
Weddingsong: The marriage of Mr. and Mrs. Anthony and Marilee Johnson.
Click the image to download a PDF copy to print out and tape up on your own bathroom mirror.“Let me not to the marriage of true minds admit impediments. Love is not love which alters when it alteration finds or … Continue reading