You have landed on the website Biting the Bullet. Perhaps on purpose, or maybe by accident, but whichever, please feel free to make yourself at home. Enjoy the photos, or peruse my written words to see if they prove entertaining, teach you something new, or provide a different perspective on some aspect of life that you had not encountered or considered before.

If you are here to assess my editorial skills, click on the “portfolio” button in the above menu to view a wide range of samples that showcase my acumen in various editorial mediums, as well as my working knowledge of numerous subjects. While I have attempted to be inclusive across all the fields and mediums I have worked in, the samples remain limited in some, though I try to add to the portfolio when I come across old work of interest or I complete appropriate new work.

Should you be here more for the potential entertainment, stick with my personal blogs, and perhaps the few old fiction pieces posted. However, be warned that some of this material may be provocative. I do not abide political correctness, pull punches, nor hesitate to utilize humor that is often inherently found within the more delicate or controversial issues that affect our lives.

The origin of “Biting the Bullet” comes from my first writing job out of university–that is, working for a small town newspaper (and then two) in what seemed to be the middle-of-nowhere North Carolina. While it was an especially slow-moving locale for on-the-job honing of my nascent skills, the experience was invaluable, and I thank my editors for helping give legs to my emerging writing career.

Part of those legs consisted of “Biting the Bullet,” a weekly column which my editor(s) let me write for publication in their small-town newspapers. A column in which I was allowed almost total free rein about subject matter and content. It was a lot of fun and one of my favorite tasks as a cub reporter. I produced about 150 columns during my time there, and looking back….

I want to gag, they’re so bad.

OK, so they’re not that bad, and there are even a few random gems, but on the whole, they’re pretty sophomoric. But hey, what do you expect? I was young and foolish then. Still am. Well, perhaps not so young.

Anyhow, this current “Biting the Bullet” is in honor of those early efforts, and you might even find a sample or two among all the other writing on these pages.

Cheers,

MJM