Mid-Summer-Eve 2017 - The Abominable Snowman and the Snowflakes
20 June 2017 I must ride the heat wave; and, at times, I must work with my happy ignorance, instead of working against it in the earnest...
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Jun 15, 2017
Mid-June 2017 - Art and the Artist
The Writer Speaks: Art and the Artist It often amuses me, the idea that art just happens! It mystically comes winging out of the cloud of...
Jun 6, 2017
D-Day 2017 - Meditation on the Bitter Woods
6 June 2017 This day began gray, overcast, chilly, but by noon it brightened to a glimmer of sunlight. I decided to wear a tropical...
May 15, 2017
Mid-May 2017 - The Corporation is Always Wrong
During the summer of 2012, I told my Dear Friend: “I’m not making my fortune until there is massive tax reform. And I am not flying on...
May 10, 2017
May 2017 - How Do You Still Keep Your Job?
Special Weather Briefing: How Do You Still Keep Your Job? “How many times can you be wrong and still keep your job?” It is a question...
May 1, 2017
May 2017 - What a Tale! - The Falcon
One balmy evening last spring, I sat down on my leather couch, intent on enjoying the next story in A Medieval Storybook (selected and...
Apr 17, 2017
Tax Day USA 2017
15 April 2017 Taxes were the primary reason why I was hectored, or bugged, by many much-older adults to get a better-paying job during...
Apr 1, 2017
April 2017 - Character Development
In the course of human events, we all come upon real characters. How precisely does a writer create a fictional character? The answer is...
Mar 1, 2017
March into Spring!
March 2017 Céad Míle Fáilte! The Feast of St. Patrick is enjoyed in my home as a religious event, a cultural commemoration and a...
Feb 1, 2017
February 2017 - Shopping the Classics
In the life of every writer-mother and her scholar-daughter, there are countless emails that count! Late last February (2016), while I...
Jan 15, 2017
Mid-January 2017 - Education in America
About ten years ago, I chanced upon a magazine article that opined to college graduates, “Go forth and forget everything that you have...
Jan 2, 2017
January 2017 - Jane Eyre
My essay, “Lessons from Jane Austen,” has been so popular that I decided, in all fairness to historic female English authors, to write an...
Dec 25, 2016
Christmas 2016 - Gifts from Writers
This holiday season, I offer frivolity and folksy gifts from writers for friends, fans and first-time readers of this website. I also...
Dec 21, 2016
Winter Solstice 2016 - The Chance Christmas
Yesterday, we were oot and aboot, as the Scots would say. Two weeks of rain, fog, low clouds, high clouds, mid-level clouds and steamy...
Oct 31, 2016
Halloween 2016 - The Great Pumpkin
Among my projects for this past year has been ongoing research for my medical novel, set in the American West in the late 1800s. SHADOW...
May 25, 2016
May 2016 - Stanley Cup Edition
CONGRATULATIONS! SAN JOSE SHARKS - WESTERN CONFERENCE CHAMPS! It has been hard on me – not to feel the hope!! The family of Tomas Hertl...
Jan 6, 2016
January 2016 - Epiphany
This time of year is always an awakening of sorts for me, although I am often led to such awareness by previous realizations. And so it...
Dec 25, 2015
Christmas 2015 - Gifts from Writers
Christmas is a time for love. There are perhaps as many kinds of love as there are kinds of people, but love, in essence, is a...
Dec 1, 2015
December 2015 - Purity in Visual Art
A while back I watched a brief documentary about the modification or re-formatting of theater motion pictures for television viewing....
Oct 31, 2015
Halloween 2015 - Free Market Masquerade
I suppose it was just a matter of time during this “eternal” recession (and the eternal “recovery”) before the free market became a...
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