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December 22, 2022
That I found myself, a grown man weeping to see the sight should have been no surprise to those who know me. As Leonel Messi, indubitably soccer’s GOAT, hoisted the gold World Cup trophy to the rapture of his younger teammates, I too, felt that my life in soccer, aka fútbol, had come full circle. Mine were tears of joy. I consider myself a […]
March 29, 2020
Soldiering On It’s a strange (no pun intended) new world we live in. I peer out from the blinds acknowledging we have ceded our patio to the creatures of the hill–a family of California quail, a pair of squirrels, the dark eyed juncos and towhee birds that forage in the leaves which, left unattended, have turned to mulch. Through all […]
October 9, 2025
By Kenneth R. Strange Jr. Frank Abagnale Frank Abagnale, professional impostor and author of the book Catch Me If You Can, which would go on to become a blockbuster Hollywood movie starring Tom Hanks and Leonardo DiCaprio, is very much alive and well. Abagnale spent years as a con artist pretending to be, among other things, a pilot for the airlines, a […]
September 29, 2025
By Kenneth R. Strange Jr. Joanne Chesimard aka Asset Shakur, a convicted revolutionary and American fugitive in Cuba for more than forty years, has died at the age of seventy-eight. It was 1973. I was a Senior in high school when political activist and Black Liberation Army (BLA) member Joanne Chesimard chose to shoot it out on the New Jersey Turnpike […]
July 16, 2025
LOS ANGELES ON FIRE Los Angeles was on fire! Not the wildfire devastation of early 2025 wherein properties in Altadena and Pacific Palisades were incinerated. No, this was a smoldering fire which finally found the tinder it lacked to explode into violence and mayhem. We could all see it coming. Donald Trump had run for president on the promise of not only ferreting […]
June 26, 2025
(A Fictional Story Based on True Events) While promoting my award-winning true crime memoir, I often get asked to describe the most frightening, the most dangerous experience I had as a federal law enforcement officer. A few things came to mind—1) as an FBI agent on the Joint Terrorism Task Force (JTTF) I was alone in the apartment of a lunatic […]
May 8, 2025
If someone had told me twenty-four hours earlier that I’d be giving a motivational speech to a group of athletes at a high school in Wyoming, well…I’d have been skeptical! Yet here I was stepping onto the shiny basketball court’s midcourt center circle, still petitoning the Lord for words to guide and inspire. What could these young men possibly expect from me? […]
March 23, 2025
It’s been a long time, some fifty-six years, since I graduated from Good Shepherd, the Catholic elementary school in Brooklyn, New York. While the childhood connection to the three-story brick building, schoolyard and Romanesque church with the Celtic cross remained submerged and relegated to the past, something changed today. Con Sweeney, one of the few remaining alumni friends, texted the […]
April 11, 2024
Amsterdam The two men peered from their respective window seats at the wintry landscape rising up to greet them. Turning to each other, they flashed the ‘thumbs up’ hand gesture in acknowledgment of a TDY (temporary duty travel) that was off to a promising start. On the short hop from Amsterdam, the inspectors found time to complete their yearly Peer […]
January 23, 2024
On that evening, however, she was a 35 year old woman riding the crest of reporting on a beguiling Kingdom few people knew
November 14, 2023
Look in all directions and you’ll see skies playing host to all manner of cloud formations—huge billowing clouds rising up to the roof of the sky, mackerel clouds, clouds scudding across the horizon, dark menacing clouds that augur an abrupt change in the weather, even the wispy pink and soft blue clouds which hover like angels long after sunset. This is […]