In other words- This is a phrase I use a lot. And when I use it, I’m always seeking better or the right words, that will express what I want to say. I looked up this phrase recently and discovered that the grammarians among us think there are better ways to say this transitional phrase:… Continue reading In Other Words-
Silverfish and Books I don’t know why, but all my life I thought writing, and especially writing a book, or a poem, or a letter, or just about anything was a superior activity. So, when I meet people who respond to me when I say I write novels – psychological thrillers – they look puzzled.… Continue reading Silverfish and Books
The Hip Hop of Writing If you’re a writer like me, reading and hearing about the ongoing feud between the Writers Guild of America (WGA) and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP), like most of the news these days, puts the fear of God into you. Or aka the Apocalypse, the end… Continue reading The Hip Hop of Writing
April 2, 2022: Launch for Ancestors My first novel, Ancestors, took many years to finish. I started writing in 2007. The characters and plot evolved over time. I would often set it aside for months, then go back to it. The evolving manuscript became like an old friend. Always there, always happy to see me… Continue reading April 2, 2022: Launch for Ancestors
Is Wokism Woke? Go to Alabama and ya better watch out The landlord’ll get ya, gonna jump and shout Scottsboro Scottsboro Scottsboro boys Tell ya all about I’m gonna tell all the colored people Livin’ in Harlem swing Don’t ya ever go to Alabama Just try to sing This song repeats those stanzas over and… Continue reading Is Wokism Woke?
Teddy Bear Chollas I write this from the Anza Borrego State Park, a few hours’ drive northeast from San Diego, twenty-seven miles west of the Salton Sea, in the Colorado Desert within the larger Sonoran Desert. It’s the largest state park in California, encompassing 640,000 acres. A geologist and archeologists’ playground as one of the… Continue reading Teddy Bear Chollas
Grist for the Mill Today is New Year’s Eve, 2022. I’m sitting in my living room, paneled in redwood, the only original part of our family home acquired in 1971. I tell people it was first a small cabin on a large lot, and now it’s a large house on a small lot that still… Continue reading Grist for the Mill
Ghosts, And What They Have to Teach Us Over the years as a psychotherapist, I have been asked more than several times if I believe in ghosts. I never got used to this question, so I would equivocate: “Kinda yes!” And “kinda no!” Given that Halloween, or historically speaking, the Gaelic festival of Samhain (pronounced:… Continue reading Ghosts, And What They Have to Teach Us
Ladies of the Canyons I write this from our cabin in the Sierras at Angora Lakes, 7400 feet above Lake Tahoe, on U.S. Forest Land. Our cabin was built in 1936. We bought it 42 years ago, so this would be my 42nd summer. I never know quite what I’m going to read up here… Continue reading Ladies of the Canyons
Introduction to Ghost In 2011 I was visiting on the east coast and spent a few days in Shepherdstown, West Virginia, which was chartered in 1762, making the town thirty years older than the United States. Shepherdstown is also located in the heart of the Civil War Heritage Area. It is fifty-one miles from Gettysburg,… Continue reading Introduction to Ghost
