Lucid Disclaimer

The purpose of this blog is to contribute my thoughts to the public sphere. I hope these posts will spark conversations and healthy discourse.

I don't blog to make money, and I don't do sponsored posts. When I review something here (usually books, but occasionally movies or television programs), I am not doing so because I was approached by the authors or producers or anyone else to do so. These are my own reflections on these works, and I'm not being paid to review them.

I place ads in this blog, and I use the Amazon Affiliates program. So, if you purchase a book or video by clicking specific links in this blog, I get paid by Amazon. If you click on an ad, I get paid by Google. That's not my purpose for reviewing the items, and that's not the purpose of the blog. Like every other writer in the world, I just try to make my time financially viable on occasion.