LL: so here we are after the re-launch of your website, tell us about what Nuc-clear.com is all about?

TMJ: Nuc-clear.com is really just a creative outlet for me. A place where I can voice my opinions, control the content and subject matter featured there and where I can also release and share a fair amount of the writing projects I am working on right now. It is also a place that I think might appeal to the true thinker, at least those individuals who like to contemplate and consider larger questions in life. Some of the content I am adding might help stimulate that kind of thought process and maybe that will yield some startling self realizations and finds that will contribute to their own personal growth and development. But I also realize that some of the subject matter I will be touching on is not for everyone and so I decided to separate some of the more meaty and controversial content from the general public in the private section I created.

LL: so there is a private and public section?

TMJ: Yes, I decided that it was the best format to deal with that part of the general public who are simply curious or interested in what I am doing there or who might take an interest in more secular issues that might concern them as opposed to those individuals who I might have grown up with and have some history with. You could say that there is content there that is highly specialized and will appeal to a special interest group, which I find the general public at large shouldn’t be apart of and will not be interested in for a number of reasons.

LL: Why the secrecy or the apparent cryptic side to it?

TMJ: Well like I said some of my points of view will not be for everyone, especially people who do not come from the same place or background as me. It is not in my nature to push my points of view or personal beliefs on anyone. Instead I think it is better to encourage people to think critically about their own beliefs, what those are based on, and to discover if it is possible the source behind what their thoughts and beliefs are based on. In the end if someone forms their beliefs on a solid foundation of truth, then this is really the beginning I believe of who they are as an individual.

LL: I see, the name nuc-clear is spelled unusual, why that name? Does it have anything to do with atomic energy or nuclear power?

TMJ: No! [laughs] Fortunately for me it just happened to have a double meaning, so I tend to play on that theme a lot. Originally I was looking for a name that would convey the idea of seeing things more clear, and that is how I came up with it. When you spell it out, “N-U-C” with the word “clear”, well it is just saying “and you see clear” and of course with my website you have the “dot com” on the end. But that was the whole idea behind it and how I came up with that name, so [laughs] it has nothing to do with nuclear power or atomic energy.

LL: The name mi-fusion I noticed you have used before tmj, any connection and what does it mean?

TMJ: Mi-fusion was an online name I chose when I created nuc-clear.com at the beginning, simply because it did kind of fit into that whole nuclear theme that people automatically think of. But really I just needed a login name on some sites that wasn’t already taken and so “am I fusion?” was born, tying together the idea behind my real name Michael and the theme to my website that people automatically associate with it.

LL: know your website isn't your full time job, how is it you have time for that on top of everything else?

TMJ: I don’t, I have to make time. Everything that I do that is academic in nature I have to make time for and that is exactly what I do outside my primary occupation in trades. So this is what I do on my spare time, exciting no?

LL: [laughs] Maybe, but to who?

TMJ: [laughs] I don’t know! I imagine senior citizens who are all but retired with nothing to do only but read boring things that I write!

LL: What about your future projects in terms of writing? What are you looking forward to releasing?

TMJ: I have several but each project takes a lot of time to write. 'Thoughts and meditations of an inquiring mind' has stalled for the time being because I am focusing on other content and writing projects for the private section of my website. But that is one of the works I was looking forward to most because it combines both my philosophical and spiritual points of view and the basis for them together.

LL: So there is the sort of political and philosophical side to your work as opposed to the spiritual?

TMJ: Well yeah, there is these kinds of beliefs to every person. But in our society I have work that can appeal to your secular frame of mind with a political, scientific or philosophical flavour but I also have that side that appeals to your spiritual frame of mind. It is to this side that I in my opinion excel at.

LL: You hope to be published someday?

TMJ: Uhh… That wasn’t or isn’t the goal, at least not originally. When you think of getting published as everyone else thinks about it, you think of a book deal by a major publishing house, and maybe your book hitting the top seller list but that isn’t what I have in mind. Like I said before most my work isn’t suppose to be for mass media and I don’t intend for it to be that way. So if I get published, it will probably be because I self published some of my final writing projects and what might end up happening is that each writing project that I self publish will have an extremely limited number of copies that I will probably pay for out of my own pocket.

LL: I noticed that you are not solely a columnist, but you do graphic and web design as well on top of acting as editor in chief?

TMJ: Well yeah I have to be. This is not some massive web site with tons of employees or visitors. So the fancy titles are really not that meaningful to me. I mean I am really just an amateur at best in all these areas. I have no formal training which I think is contrary to what most people might think. It just so happens that I happen to dabble into a variety of things and this is how it all turns out.

LL: Any kids in you future or wedding bells?

TMJ: [laughs] I don’t know, I am not sure if I have the time for that. If I finish everything I want to write in the next 5 years then that is a good possibility for both, but we shall see.

LL: Well it was nice chatting with you over this delicious latte, thank you and I wish you well with your website and your future literary endeavors.

TMJ: Thank you!