15 November 2023 Governor Walz: On October 7, 2023 we met at the Veteran Suicide Awareness event held in Bemidji. I shared with you my idea of “Once in a Lifetime” debt forgiveness to the state to those incarcerated, upon their release. You expressed great excitement at the concept. You handed my business card to …
Read MoreKerosene Scrub down
Historical/Generational trauma are terms we often hear linked to government boarding schools that were designed to assimilate Native American children to our European immigrant culture. While researching a project I’m working on, the term “kerosene bath” popped up several times. An example, “[Native] Children were … cleansed with alcohol, kerosene, and synthetic pesticides.” From https://www.midwesternstoriesbsu.com/people …
Read MoreInterview on Vietnam War Books That Influenced Me
More than five decades ago I patrolled the rivers of Vietnam. Four decades later, I told my stories. I was recently invited to participate in an interview about Vietnam War literature that influenced me. The top five books t are listed, but there were also countless other narratives that I learned from, including the World …
Read MoreCost of War MUDDY JUNGLE RIVERS–Epilogue
23 years ago, “Buddha” Ed Thomas died alone in an isolated cabin in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. We had lost contact 31 years earlier when I was medevac’d out of an ambush during our Vietnam adventure. Through a series of events, we had reconnected a few years before he died. I came to realize that if …
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Book giveaway: “BARBARA, Uncharted Course Through Borderline Personality Disorder.”
From Amber Heard to Disney’s “Moon Knight,” personality disorders have suddenly become part of public conversation. This was not the case when I first started researching and writing about BPD over a decade ago. For me, interest in this subject was not fueled by Hollywood or celebrity gossip. It was personal.
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Borderline Personality Disorder and the Heard-Depp Lawsuit
Like Amber Heard, my mother had Borderline Personality Disorder. Even as a victim of her abuse, my feelings are complicated.
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NOW AVAILABLE: Barbara, Uncharted Course Through Borderline Personality Disorder
Barbara, Uncharted Course Through Borderline Personality Disorder is the culmination of a decade researching over one thousand pages of primary source documents and interviewing mental health professionals as Affield learns to understand and appreciate the woman who haunted his childhood.
Read MoreJoin the Launch Team
You can help get Barbara, Uncharted Course Through Borderline Personality Disorder out into the world by joining Wendell’s Launch Team. Anyone in the U.S. is eligible to join. The only fee or requirement is that you purchase one copy of the book! What is a Book Launch Team? A Book Launch Team is a group …
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COMING SOON: Barbara, Uncharted Course Through Borderline Personality Disorder
Chickenhouse Chronicles Book 3 Launching November 2021
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Coming Soon
Its been a long haul since the first discoveries in 2010 after my mother died. Later this summer “BARBARA, Uncharted Course Through Borderline Personality Disorder” will be in bookstores and available on-line. Here is an excerpt, “From the Author.”Two years ago, I thought I was close to completion on my BARBARA story, but an amazing …
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