Books Category

Home of the Brave – it’s time for the world to come together as one –

One of the most important paintings in my own collection is titled “Home of the Brave” by the young San Francisco artist Monty Guy. It depicts a battle-scarred American Indian wearing traditional war paint on his face along with a black-eye. Blood splatters his face and body. Across his chest the words Land of the […]

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Too Bad!

Your candidate didn’t win the race? Too bad! It’s time to claim your power and start something new. My book FEAR – Fuck Everything and Run will help you train for and run a marathon. It will change your life forever. It’s free today on Amazon. Get it now. https://www.amazon.com/FEAR-Culver-Connor-McCall-ebook/dp/B016AZM5TW Here is an excerpt… Outwardly, […]

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Diary of a 53 year old college student – the muse appears –

It’s week 4 of my first semester back in school in over twenty years. My mind has had a hard time keeping up. Fortunately, I’ve been able to adapt a few study tricks that seem to be working well. As I’ve mentioned in an earlier post, I’m having some trouble retaining information – the brain […]

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Say Hello Wave Goodbye –

Everyone has a point in their lives where their destiny is changed forever. When we look back on those moments, we realize that was the point of no return – that was when everything changed. That point is a defining moment in our lives and who we are couldn’t have happened without that moment. For […]

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We Will Not Regret The Past Nor Wish To Shut The Door On It – Thanksgiving 1982

Have you ever taken a loved one for granted, assumed they would always be there when you needed them, told yourself you’d call tomorrow, but tomorrow never came? That’s what Thanksgiving 1982 was for me. I was a sophomore in college and smack dab in the middle of a bad case of drug addiction. The […]

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FEAR is your friend – 

  My new book FEAR is now available in print and kindle formats on Amazon. FEAR explores what it takes to get to the finish line of a marathon. Of course, FEAR is an acronym for Fuck Everything And Run. But, in the context of running, it means so much more than that.  In FEAR I […]

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Free FEAR Gear

   To get to the finish line of a marathon you have to say yes when you’d normally say no and no when you’d normally say yes – and sometimes that just means saying, “fuck everything and run.” My take on marathon training, FEAR, is available for presale in the Kindle format on Amazon. It […]

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FEAR is here –

   It’s been a crazy, exciting and fulfilling year for me.  After publishing my first book Stonewall to Obama in January 2014, I’ve struggled to identify a new writing project that would be as meaningful to me as the blending of music and culture with the gay rights movement. Publishing S2O threw me a major […]

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Fear of Failure / Fear of Success – 

   Last week I sent the manuscript for my new book FEAR to my editor. Since then I’ve been in a sort of purgatory. I’ve been vascillating between fear of failure and fear of success. What if no one reads it? What if it’s a huge success? I’ve run through countless gloom and doom scenarios […]

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The Prime of Miss Whomever

I’m blessed to be surrounded by beautiful women of all ages that inspire me every day. But, this week I heard someone say, “She’s past her prime.” I was reminded of the Academy Award winning movie The Prime of Miss Jean Brody where actress Maggie Smith plays a controversial private school teacher in her sexual […]

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