Detours are not disqualifications.

This Website is about a man whose life did not go in a straight line.

It is a life of detours that became destinations,

Of mistakes that became teachers,

Of wreckage that became architecture.

…and you’re invited along for the ride!

Vanity? Vanity!

Run my life story past an AI and here’s what you get:

Born in 1957, caught between the boomers and Gen X, Some folks call us Generation Jones. This candid memoir traces my unexpectedly unusual life—from watching the chaos of the ’60s on a black-and-white TV to stumbling through decades of hard lessons, strong opinions, and enduring love. Honest, humorous, and self-aware, it’s a story about missteps, convictions, and the desire to be remembered. Impressive, right?

Now here’s my take on this website:

I have a unique opportunity to share with you a very distinctive history of the past sixty years. It’s my history. It’s a history you’ll hear nowhere else. It comes from the conjunction of a fanatical religious fervor mixed with a mountain of bad luck and scores of horrible decisions. Stir in a huge amount of curiosity, a thirst for reading translated into an unending attempt to record all I learned and what I think in a blaze of essays, stories and eventually books. Now it all comes from my fingers to your eyes, or my voice to your ears.

Over the next few months, maybe years, you’ll find a growing volume of writing, videos and brief vignettes showing the world of the past sixty years as I saw them. Take your time and come back often for I have a lot heading your way. Oh, and thanks!

What you’ll find

On this website…

My Novels

Information here on how to find and obtain copies of these books. They are three great stories!

Short Stories

From my mind to yours

I have written hundreds of stories over the years. Most are lost but many wait in my hard-drive for me to upload them here.

Two Cents’ Worth

Essays and Opinion

If I thought about it, I wrote about it. Through the years I’ve written enough political prose to piss every politician in America off.

AV Stuff

What you want.

Sure, it’s a Tiktok world. Who reads? Well, people should read more but I manage to cobble together a weirdly collection of videos, a few audios, and whatever.

Scroll down and find a few random annoyances to keep you busy while I collect the collections.

Is It Real or Is It Memorex?

In Me and AI: Is It Real or Is It Memorex?, I reflect on the blurring line between human creativity and artificial intelligence. I embrace AI as a tool but never a substitute for my own voice. Here’s a nostalgic yet urgent call to protect originality in a world increasingly shaped by machines.

Bullshit. Unadulterated!

Not quite a blog, not quiet a diary, really not a hell of a lot of anything but the absurd comments from this guy that hangs around here.

Resistance Is Not Futile

Oh hell no, not politics! I’m afraid so! No need to repeat the dozens and hundreds of videos and images and talking head announcements, but just my two cents worth. Discussion and video. See where you fit in.

Hell hath no fury like an unaccountable hospital.

The worst thing that ever happened to me occurred in 2020. I was sent to a hospital for a minor ailment and wound up there three and a half months. I was not sick, except I had a little bit of a head cold. Somebody did something and caused me to stop reading and it went downhill from there. This is my story.

Nothing like having your prayers never answered.

LISTEN to John Lennon… “imagine no religion.” It’s easy if you try.

And now… Back Days

Everybody has a story. Some stories are more ordinary than others Some people’s stories include wild and crazy adventures. Other stories are tragic. Every story is unique. I find it sad that most people’s stories are never told. We are all just short flickers of light existing for the briefest of time in a universe indifferent to our existence. We’re here and we’re gone. Most stories are never told. I find that just a bit sad and depressing.

This website presents my work, my books and writing, but it is also a repository of me. I write it not to be vain or selfglorious but to present my case to the world and to give my future family insight into the life that grandpa Gresham lived.

I’d give anything in the world to have my parents’ stories. All I have is tiny glimpses of a few events in their life. Everything else is lost to history. I want my story to be told. At least to my family. Maybe I’m vain. Am I impudent? Maybe. But here I go anyway.

My story is unique. Through the years I’ve done many things, gone a few places, thought a few different thoughts. As I near the end of this strange life I want to share what I’ve done, who I’ve been, what life was like for me as I moved through time from the sixties to now. This is my story. Maybe you’ll find my life boring but maybe you won’t. Maybe you’ll learn a few lessons without the hard experiences I had to go through to learn them. At least on a blustery day when you have little to do you’ve been entertained by my wild tale. Hope so.

* About fuck-ups and failures…

If you haven’t fucked up, have you really lived? In this raw and unflinching reflection, a self-proclaimed veteran of failures lays out a life stitched together by broken trust, hard lessons, and stubborn survival. Every mistake—big, small, repeated—becomes a scar worn like a badge of courage, proof of risks taken and dreams pursued. BACK DAYS invites readers on a gritty, honest hay-ride through decades of missteps and endurance, following the journey of a once-awkward outsider who refused to disappear. Laugh, wince, argue, and wonder—because in the end, survival may be the greatest triumph of all.

Work? I’m like my daddy…

I can sit and watch a man work all day long. But me? A working man? I did, once in a while. Find my old resume’ here. There are more documents, images, and stories to prove I worked once in a while. It’s about the working me!

Bits of Me in Video

I kind of take after a car my dad used to have. He had a Rambler. I ramble a lot. Some say I have a funny sense of humor. Some say I’m just weird. I think the latter comments probably closer to it. Either way, here’s a page of videos that’s growing by the week. If I can maintain the pace. It’s little bits and pieces of me on video. Check it out for your viewing pleasure. And yes, this page is redundant. I have placed many of the pages here on other pages where they apply. How’s that to confuse you?

You think I’m wacky now? Look back then.

In 2014 I got a burr under my ass. I grew my hair long and had a big beard. Over all that was a pretty wild time altogether, stories for another day. During that time I made a series of videos that I put on YouTube. They were political, dealing with the situation as it was then. It might be entertaining, enlightening, or just weird. Anyway, enjoy. I think they’re funny, anyway,