Hi everyone, I'm AW [Art] Schade and glad to be a new member. I'm a Marine Vietnam veteran and a retired IBM executive, married, with three sons and 9 grandchildren. Somewhere along the way I became a novelist too. My book, The Shattered Mosaic, [Booklife editors pick] follows a veteran trial lawyer who loses someone close to him and ends up turning the same evidence-based mind he used in courtrooms toward something much bigger: the world's faith traditions, and whether any of them can hold up under real scrutiny when grief forces the question. It's really a story about what happens when the answers you were handed no longer fit, and what you build in their place. Glad to be here, and I'm looking forward to getting to know this group.

Hi all, just wanted to share my most recent article for the Washington Post: https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2026/07/24/vaccines-prevent-diseases-like-polio-dont-forget-about-them/

Hi All, Has anyone done the classroom on Skool? If so, which ones did you find the most helpful? Thanks!!

Kathy: Link to Vote https://peoplesartist.org/2026/kathy-l-murphy-dJnxhttps://peoplesartist.org/2026/kathy-l-murphy-dJnx I advanced to the Top Ten so I’m am so close. Vote every day on my link on this banner. One vote per day. Thank you all as have advanced because of your votes four times. If I win it will be cause of all of you voting each day. I get notices on who is voting so top voter is going to get one of my original signed paintings autographed to you! Thank you as I am here for you and so good to know you are here for me. This is community building at its finest!

Hi! I am Carolina from McAllen, Texas, United States and I am excited to have joined this book club community! I love to read and write! I hope to enjoy this community by reading monthly books.