I’m working on the new StrikeForce book today. But, I’m also wondering how it came to this? How did our country become so divided?

Even though I write books that contain a sometimes surprising amount of violence, I truly believe that violence is rarely the answer. I believe that people are inherently good and that given enough time we will collectively rise up from the ignorance and brutality that has plagued so much of our history.

Even in the darkest of times, there is light.

This week I was lucky enough to be mentioned in an article about my Red Cross blood donations. I’m blessed with a blood type that lets me donate to babies. I give at every opportunity. There are babies somewhere out there that have lived because I schlepped to a blood donation center and let them jab me in the arm.

It’s such a small price to pay and one that I will continue to pay.

If you can give blood, please consider doing so.