"But of all other stupendous inventions, what sublimity of mind must have his who conceived how to communicate his most secret thoughts to any other person, though very far distant either in time or place. . . speaking to those who are not yet born, nor shall be this thousand or ten thousand years?

I just recently published a paper on the Origins of the Alphabet in Sino-Platonic Papers (SPP), a scholarly journal that is edited by Professor Victor Mair at the Univ. of Pennsylvania.  Issue 341 is my 7th paper in Sino-Platonic Papers, it is my most important, and it builds on my last paper (issue 328), which looked at the evidence and relationship between the Phoenician alphabet (an alphazodiac), the constellations of the zodiac, the cycle of wheat, Neolithic goddess of the horizon figurines, and the myth of Osiris/Seth/Horus (seed/Word selection). It is titled, "On the Origins of the Alphabet:  Orion/Osiris in Need of Head/Seed, the Roots of Writing, the Neolithic Europe Word as Sun/Seed System (NEWS), and a Solution to the Tartaria and Gradeshnista Tablets" (go to www.sino-platonic.org to download them for free -- SPP 196, SPP 219, SPP 246, SPP 263, SPP 296, SPP 328, and SPP 341).  

My new book The Siren Sea has just been published!  It concerns two sailors who steal a nuclear weapon off the USS Midway in Japan for humanitarian reasons.  See below.

I recently finished a book on Shakespeare. It's called Shakespeare's 'Master Mistress'.  It concerns the identity of the youth and mistress of Shakespeare's Sonnets -- and it's not what people would expect.  It breaks new ground and complements Clare Asquith's  two books on Shakespeare -- Shadowplay and her follow-up book Shakespeare and the Resistance. I'm putting the finishing touches on it and I'll be sending it out soon to publishers.

I'm also rewriting my short story collection Between Fire and Sea. It's based on many real-life adventures and close-calls that I experienced while serving on the aircraft carrier USS Midway from 1979 to 1981. The USS Midway is now a museum in San Diego, CA. 

I'm also working on a few Children's stories (which I will also illustrate). One in particular has already received a wonderful response from the children of a recent co-worker, Ashley. I did one illustration and can't wait to finish the rest of them.

Lastly, I'm working on an autobiography.  It will largely entail the many adventures I had while in the Navy.