My Third Novel's Conclusion, My Heartbreak

My heart begins to break when I think about completing this particular book -- because this narrative has sustained me like no other story I've known. It's both more personal and more universal than my other works. But beyond memory and archetype, it's a cri-de-coeur about needing to become the person one is destined to be. And in the writing, I have met my own life's work, my own fated journey -- having the sense all the while that the pages are suffused with a resonance, an energy, an electrified field that defies explanation. Writers hope and pray to be overtaken by a work in this way -- to be conscripted into passionate service of a profound story. To experience it even once in a lifetime seems a great privilege. I still have several months before this novel is complete, and this constitutes my reprieve. Because I'm not ready for the beauty to end.




Thursday, August 6, 2026

Recent Emails to the OIG Hotline

 OIG Hotline, please see the following recent emails to your Office:

August 11, 2026

  • ATTN: OIG HOTLINE Re: Fwd: Delivery Status Notification (Delay), sent at 2:33 PM Central Daylight Time.
  • ATTN: OIG HOTLINE Re: FOIA Request, Conditionally Confidential, sent at 2:23 PM Central Daylight Time.
  • ATTN: OIG HOTLINE Re: Request for Intervention Re: Apparent Law Enforcement Retaliation to Request for Review By the Public Access Counselor of the Illinois Attorney General's Office, sent at 2:03 PM Central Daylight Time.
  • ATTN: OIG HOTLINE Re: Fwd: Boys, please respond as soon as possible, sent at 1:09 PM Central Daylight Time.
  • ATTN: OIG HOTLINE Re: Fwd: FOIA Request Form Attached, sent at 12:53 PM Central Daylight Time.
  • ATTN: OIG HOTLINE Re: Allocation for the Support of American Journalism, sent at 11:57 AM Central Daylight Time.
  • ATTN: OIG HOTLINE Re: Fwd: Battling False Claims, sent at 7:13 AM Central Daylight Time.
  • ATTN: OIG HOTLINE Re: Update, August 11, 2026, Conditionally Confidential, sent at 5:51 AM Central Daylight Time.
  • ATTN: OIG HOTLINE Re: Background Information, August 11, 2026, Conditionally Confidential, sent at 5:51 AM Central Daylight Time.
  • ATTN: OIG HOTLINE Re: Request for Appeal and Injunctive Relief Re: Alleged Defamation and Wrongful Conviction Due to AI-generated Video from FBI, sent at 5:31 AM Central Daylight Time.

August 10, 2026

  • Boys, please respond as soon as possible, sent at 2:56 PM Central Daylight Time.
  • ATTN: OIG HOTLINE Re: Non-sequitur Comments from Staff Member at Drury Inn, sent at 2:45 PM and 2:53 PM Central Daylight Time.
  • ATTN: OIG HOTLINE Re: Update, August 10, 2026, sent at 7:53 AM Central Daylight Time.
  • ATTN: OIG HOTLINE Re: Fwd: Battling False Claims, sent at 7:30 AM Central Daylight Time.
  • ATTN: OIG HOTLINE Re: Fwd: Key Left on Bench at Stuart Park, sent at 7:27 AM Central Daylight Time.
  • ATTN: OIG HOTLINE Re: Fwd: Follow Up to Dog Park Today, sent at 7:00 AM Central Daylight Time.
  • ATTN: OIG HOTLINE Re: Background Information, August 10, 2026, Conditionally Confidential, sent at 6:50 AM Central Daylight Time.
  • ATTN: OIG HOTLINE Re: Illuminating FBI Aggression Toward a FOIA Requester, sent at 6:36 AM Central Daylight Time.
  • Fwd: Video, August 9, 2026, Conditionally Confidential, sent at 6:32 AM Central Daylight Time.

August 9, 2026

  • ATTN: OIG HOTLINE Re: Request for Aggregation of Communication...sent at 9:13 PM Central Daylight Time.
  • ATTN: OIG HOTLINE Re: Fwd: Please forward to Mike... sent at 3:46 PM Central Daylight Time.
  • ATTN: OIG HOTLINE Re: August 9, 2026, Background Information, Conditionally Confidential, sent at 1:23 PM Central Daylight Time.
  • ATTN: OIG HOTLINE Re: Fwd: Battling False Claims, sent at 1:21 PM Central Daylight Time.
  • ATTN: OIG HOTLINE Re: Fwd: Response to Recent Email, sent at 12:54 PM Central Daylight Time.
  • ATTN: OIG HOTLINE Re: Fwd: Delivery Status Notification ..., sent at 11:00 AM and 3:38 PM Central Daylight Time.
  • ATTN: OIG HOTLINE Re: Why Is Supporting Americans' Futures Deemed a Crime By the FBI?, sent at 10:54 AM Central Daylight Time.



August 8, 2026

  • ATTN: OIG HOTLINE Re: Update, August 8, 2026, sent at 11:28 PM Central Daylight Time.
  • ATTN: OIG HOTLINE Re: Request for Assessment of Guidelines, sent at 10:31 PM Central Daylight Time.
  • ATTN: OIG HOTLINE Re: Travel to California, sent at 3:16 PM Central Daylight Time.
  • ATTN: OIG HOTLINE Re: Fwd: CVS, sent at 3:05 PM Central Daylight Time.
  • ATTN: OIG HOTLINE Re: Fwd: Texts with KPM, sent at 2:15 PM Central Daylight Time.
  • ATTN: OIG HOTLINE Re: Request for Injunctive Relief Pertaining to Alleged Executive Order of Harm, sent at 2:14 PM Central Daylight Time.
  • ATTN: OIG HOTLINE Re: Fwd: Response to Recent Email, sent at 11:33 AM Central Daylight Time.
  • ATTN: OIG HOTLINE Re: Formal Withdrawal for GTM, sent at 11:09 AM Central Daylight Time.
  • ATTN: OIG HOTLINE Re: Fwd: Battling False Claims, sent at 10:35 AM Central Daylight Time.
  • ATTN: OIG HOTLINE Re: Background Information, August 8, 2026, Conditionally Confidential, sent at 10:31 AM Central Daylight Time.
  • ATTN: OIG HOTLINE Re: Fwd: All Details, Please, sent at 10:11 AM Central Daylight Time.
  • ATTN: OIG HOTLINE Re: Fwd: Text to KPM, sent at 9:30 AM Central Daylight Time.

August 7, 2026:

  • ATTN: OIG HOTLINE Re: Fwd: FOIA Response - MacWillaims, sent at 10:43 PM Central Daylight Time.
  • ATTN: OIG HOTLINE Re: Fwd: Documentation Re: Dog Park, August 7, 2026, sent at 10:31 PM Central Daylight Time.
  • ATTN: OIG HOTLINE Re: Update to Foundation Priorities 2026, Confidential, sent at 6:57 PM Central Daylight Time.
  • ATTN: OIG HOTLINE Re: Older Son's Response to Questions, sent at 1:10 PM Central Daylight Time.
  • ATTN: OIG HOTLINE Re: Foundation Priorities 2026, Confidential, sent at 12:12 PM Central Daylight Time.
  • ATTN: OIG HOTLINE Re: Documentation, August 7, 2026, sent at 7:28 AM Central Daylight Time.
  • ATTN: OIG HOTLINE Re: Fwd: Battling False Claims, sent at 7:11 AM Central Daylight Time.
  • ATTN: OIG HOTLINE Re: Background Information, August 7, 2026, Conditionally Confidential, sent at 7:05 AM Central Daylight Time.
  • ATTN: OIG HOTLINE Re: Fwd: Important Questions within Unread Text to You, sent at 6:57 AM Central Daylight Time.
  • ATTN: OIG HOTLINE Re: Fwd: Gxx Texts, sent at 6:52 AM Central Daylight Time.
  • ATTN: OIG HOTLINE Re: Fwd: Kxx Texts, sent at 6:47 AM Central Daylight Time.
  • ATTN: OIG HOTLINE Re: Health Update, August 7, 2026, Conditionally Confidential, sent at 6:20 AM Central Daylight Time.
  • ATTN: OIG HOTLINE Re: Fwd: Wyndham Customer Care..., sent at 6:09 AM Central Daylight Time.
  • ATTN: OIG HOTLINE Re: Fwd: Follow Up to Dog Park Today, Conditionally Confidential, sent at 5:56 AM Central Daylight Time.

August 6, 2026

  • ATTN: OIG HOTLINE Re: Fwd: Boys, please respond as soon as possible, sent at 11:38 PM Central Daylight Time.
  • ATTN: OIG HOTLINE Re: Request for Intervention, August 6, 2026, Conditionally Confidential, sent at 2:37 PM Central Daylight Time.
  • ATTN: OIG HOTLINE Re: Request for Advocacy Regarding Obstruction of Communications, sent at 11:24 AM Central Daylight Time.
  • ATTN: OIG HOTLINE Re: Battling False Claims, sent at 7:53 AM Central Daylight Time.
  • ATTN: OIG HOTLINE Re: Background Information, August 6, 2026, Conditionally Confidential, sent at 7:47 AM Central Daylight Time.
  • ATTN: OIG HOTLINE Re: Fwd: Boys, please respond as soon as possible, sent at 7:18 AM Central Daylight Time.
  • ATTN: OIG HOTLINE Re: Fwd: GTM Texts 2, Conditionally Confidential, sent at 7:00 AM Central Daylight Time.
  • ATTN: OIG HOTLINE Re: Update, August 5, 2026, sent at 6:42 AM and 10:45 AM Central Daylight Time.
  • ATTN: OIG HOTLINE Re: Fwd: La Quinta: Possible D** Perpetrator, Conditionally Confidential, sent at 12:19 PM Central Daylight Time.

August 5, 2026

  • ATTN: OIG HOTLINE Re: GTM Texts, sent at 7:04 PM Central Daylight Time.
  • ATTN: OIG HOTLINE Re: Strands of Hair, sent at 1:35 PM Central Daylight Time.
  • ATTN: OIG HOTLINE Re: Fwd: Battling False Claims, sent at 11:17 AM Central Daylight Time.
  • ATTN: OIG HOTLINE Re: Background Information, August 5, 2026, Conditionally Confidential, sent at 11:08 AM Central Daylight Time.

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