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. 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 and Accounting. Research and writing have always been my most effective means of learning, and I intend to utilize this blog 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 writing topically via branding as follows:
– The Artist of the Steal ™ with any future contributing writers included as Artists 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;
– 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;
– 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 with the last several thousand dollars-worth settled and still in repayment, which is why I am, at least for now, rebranding it for blog purposes to preserve the trademark (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 -- I should be able to set aside a month or so in Summer 2026 for that -- we'll see).
