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Lighthouse now in Carmina

As always, I’m thrilled my work is honored, appreciated, and published. My tone poem, Lighthouse, appears in the March 2024 issue of Carmina. There is a great joy when my poetry is published because I in no way consider myself a poet even though I love the form and have studied it often. My first … Continue reading "Lighthouse now in Carmina"

A Tale of Two Pups

Last week it was Rabbit, this week it’s Coyote. Probably because it’s that time of year. The Wild wakes (not that it ever sleeps) and everyone comes out parading their young. Kind of like an Easter parade, don’t you think? And Easter…that christian new life/resurrection thing, that coming out of the cave, out of the … Continue reading "A Tale of Two Pups"

Announcing RoundTable 360°

What makes creative people creative? What goes on in their minds that causes the ideas they put on the screen, in their books, their poems, their music, on a stage, in their songs, in a dance, on a canvas, …? Does the same blood pump through their veins as pumps through ours? What happened in … Continue reading "Announcing RoundTable 360°"

That Th!nk You Do is now an audiobook

That Th!nk You Do, my first title with Northern Lights Publishing and published Jan ’23, is now available as an audio book. Northern Lights’s A-Team had many discussions about going the audio route, and several audio providers (of course) leapt forward explaining how they’d do the best job. Already having one audio book failure with … Continue reading "That Th!nk You Do is now an audiobook"

The Alibi (A John Chance Mystery) – Chapter 42 Section V Mega Chapter 1 (part 2)

The Alibi – Chapter 42 Section V Mega Chapter 1 (part 2)   Dao stood at the head of the small dock at the end of the warehouse pier next to Langonne Park. His people had survived much. Much throughout their history, much throughout his life. Their wariness of the Surface Breathers kept them safe. … Continue reading "The Alibi (A John Chance Mystery) – Chapter 42 Section V Mega Chapter 1 (part 2)"

The Bunlet

Rabbits – at least the kind we have here in southern New Hampshire – are not good parents. At least not good mothers. At least in human terms. Wild rabbits here in southern New Hampshire neither warren nor den. They spend their time above ground and out in the open. Their young, likewise, are born … Continue reading "The Bunlet"

The Alibi (A John Chance Mystery) – Chapter 42 Section V Mega Chapter 1 (part 1)

No, we’re not actually back at chapter 42. I realized last month the time sequences of some chapters were skewed because, at this point in the novel, several things are happening simultaneously. That required some fixing. For example, this chapter 42 also has “Section V Mega Chapter 1” as part of its title. That’s because … Continue reading "The Alibi (A John Chance Mystery) – Chapter 42 Section V Mega Chapter 1 (part 1)"

The Hidden One

Stealth. Two-Legs have long forgotten stealth. Probably because much of the modern world thinks of itself as king-of-the-hill, top-dog, ultimate-alpha, dominant-species, … Such arrogance, such ignorance, baffles me. For that matter, much of the modern world baffles me. We listen to self-proclaimed gurus and wisdom-keepers and relinquish all aspects of our selves. What made us … Continue reading "The Hidden One"

The Alibi (A John Chance Mystery) – Chapter 45

The Alibi – Chapter 45   Penny kept her eyes closed and stretched her legs and arms under the covers. She loved her soft mattressed, king-sized bed. She slept naked because the feel of the lightly perfumed midnight blue satin titillated her. Plus, he preferred her in the nude. Sometimes he came in so hungry, … Continue reading "The Alibi (A John Chance Mystery) – Chapter 45"

Mother and Child

Having praised youth in our last entry, this week we turn our attention to what allows youth to exist, the bond praised in Paul Simon‘s Mother and Child Reunion and humbly immortalized in much of my work, Mother and Child. My first cognition of a Mother and Child anything came while reading A.E. Van Vogt‘s … Continue reading "Mother and Child"