Dan Edward Goodlett

Author and Blogger.

Exploring the experience of being human.

About Dan

Dan a writer, researcher, and lifelong observer of the strange ways personal history intersects with the larger human story. His book is A Gathering at Ground Zero: A Memoir of the Human Race.

He also has a Patreon blog called the Ground Zero Cafe, a place for exploring ideas about war, family, technology, climate, consciousness, genealogy, propaganda, and the choices we make about our future.

Before turning more fully to writing, Dan spent decades working with computers, information technology, nonprofit organizations, and emerging technologies.

He is the originator of Cave Paint Media, which is intended to be a collaborative of artists of all type, helping to connect with each other and the audience

Coming in September

A Gathering at Ground Zero

Featured Work

A Gathering at Ground Zero is a 600+ page account of Dan Edward Goodlett's drama of resisting the draft in the late sixties and the events that led up to it and the consequences afterward. Why would a nineteen year old boy chose an uncertain future? The why circled in Dan's mind a long time before he actually left for Canada. His dyslexic mind discovered a faulty world, based on wrong assumptions, propaganda, and fear. Follow him as he makes his escape, how he fails to adapt to living in exile, the jail time he served when he returned, and his agonizing decision to let himself be drafted. In this process he eventually discovers his self, by giving his life purpose and meaning.

Join Dan on Patreon. Support him by subscribing to his blogs. Gathering at Groud Zero will be available as a serialized book.

Available on Amazon

Petroglyphs

What remains unopened.

Double Mirage

Death Mask

Sealed by choice.

A Literary Profile

Dan writes from his own experience. He learned early that if he wanted to write, he would have to have those experiences. He could not spend his life watching from the safe side of the glass.

He had to take the road, open the questionable door, make mistakes, meet people unlike himself, fall in love, get hurt, travel, work, rebel, and occasionally walk straight into the fist waiting on the other side.

The experiences did not always make him wiser when they happened, but they gave him something better than theory: something he had actually lived. Later, writing became the way he returned to those moments, turned them over, and discovered what they had been trying to teach him all along.

60

Years of writing

Project Q

Suicide Grafitti

The Suicide Inside

Eudemon

A Good Demon

The Hidden Identity

Our True Selves