Dave Enders

I’m Dave, a retired father, cognitive analyst, journalist, editor, publisher and teacher with a lifetime of experience in all these areas and specialties, more concerned these days with what I might leave behind than much of anything else. Despite my readiness to be a grandfather, my children are on a different path in their lives, so I've been seeking my own path as well for a bit more than a year now as I begin this blog. Having lived so long for others, I honestly can't remember the freedom of just living for myself, so I guess I'm just going to have to rediscover it by focusing on those things from which life and family responsibilities distracted me in the first three parts of the story of my life. All that being said, this blog is my writer's journal documenting my Coming of Age in Aging Out.

I was a U.S. Army SigInt Analyst supervisor and Public Affairs supervisor (I used to get teased about switching from "knowing everything and telling no one" to "knowing nothing and telling everyone"), as well as a civilian teacher, journalist and editor. Notably, for a time I owned my own publishing house and served as Editor-in-Chief of the NCO Journal, the professional journal for noncommissioned officers. I have what you might say are secondary expertise in photography and videography (old school) as a result of my military training. Holistically, I see and approach the world around me analytically, specifically applying cognitive analysis to everything, whether I want to or not: it is what it is. I am a lifelong learner and student of humanity and nature, which makes me kind of … a philosopher of circumstance.

I hold a BA in English Education, with post graduate study in communications and journalism, cognitive analysis, cognitive psychology, business, and to a lesser extent, law (intellectual property law, business law, and family law). As a life-long learner, I’m currently researching Economics Theory, Finance, Investment Strategies, Accounting, Abrahamic Religions and Other Belief Systems. Research and writing have always been my most effective means of learning, and I intend to utilize this blog as a journal similar to a student journal and also as an incubator for my ideas and articles to be reviewed, peer and/or otherwise.

As with most journalists, my writing interests are diverse. Inasmuch, while I'm publishing everything collectively under my name here, I am organizing my writings topically via branding including letters to the editor email addresses as follows:

– Artists of the Steal ™ (and Artist of the Steal ™ -- (Evolutionary Economics Theory, and Need before Greed Finance and Investing Strategies) -- while every other English-speaking nation on the planet would associate the word steal with "theft" or something even more criminal, there are uniquely American definitions of the word steal, one of which is "to find or strike a bargain", and it is this definition that I apply to this trademarked brand for economics, finance and investing, editor.artistsofthesteal@endersgroup.com (I am not a financial advisor and do not offer financial advice -- everything published under this brand is for informational purposes only and should not be construed as advice or recommendations of any kind or type);

– Dave 20/20 ™ (Memoir, Reflective Essays and Advice) -- obviously, hindsight is 20/20, and it's how I choose to remember myself and my life, as a realist, as simply as possible but as complex as is appropriate, and for whatever it's worth, editor.dave2020@endersgroup.com or advice.dave2020@endersgroup.com;

– DomiCure ™ (Living Well on a Budget) -- this name is actually left over from a family-owned home improvement business that was only one year in when COVID hit and shuttered it for us, so today, I'm sole owner of the name as I conceived it and I encumbered all the debt when the business shuttered, several thousand dollars of which while settled is still in repayment and still holding me back, which is why I am, at least for now, rebranding it for blog purposes to preserve the trademark for later use as a lifestyles magazine and branded line of products, editor.domicure@endersgroup.com or advice.domicure@endersgroup.com (words and names are themselves not legally available for trademark unless the word or name is itself unique -- I conceived the name DomiCure ™ by combining the Latin words for 'Domicile' and 'Care' to create a unique and trademarkable name); and,

– Scribble R Us ™ (Writing, Journalism and Communications) -- this brand is a tribute to Barbara Hoffman (Obituary), my writing professor in college, as she conceived the name for a writing club/course, and I'm assuming the trademark to preserve the trademark in her memory and perhaps create some meaningful writer development content, with the intention to donate this brand and associated URLs for posterity to Marywood University for continued developed as a platform for writer development and collaboration in memory of Barbara Hoffman to serve as a revenue generation means to support the University's Barbara Hoffman English 160 Award and grants in perpetuity as a part of the University's endowment (still have a few details, well... all the details actually, to work out with Marywood University the next time I visit my friends in Scranton and Dunmore, which is why I have no email associated with this URL -- I should be able to set aside a month or so in Summer 2026 for that -- we'll see).