The Square Rigger
July 2018 Ahoy: All Hands on Deck! It’s entirely a matter of speculation, but I highly doubt that Lawrence Kudlow, economist...
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Jul 4, 2018
Freedom Rings - The Big Valley!
4 July 2018 The Liberty Bell first rang in America in 1753 in the tower of the State House of Pennsylvania. The bell’s got a crack in it,...
Jun 25, 2018
Prince of Poets: Pierre de Ronsard
Summer Blooms 2018 This French Renaissance poet was deemed by his literary peers to be “the Prince of Poets” or « le prince de poètes »....
Jun 25, 2018
Truth in Advertising - Labels in America
2018 Summer Sale What is it with the American need to label everything, including people? I perhaps defy categorization but it hasn’t...
Jun 24, 2018
The Art of The Letter
Summer (2018) of Love I place great stock upon letter-writing. It’s a joy and a means of confiding to a person outside of myself the...
Jun 1, 2018
Anonymous Was A Woman
June 2018 Anonymous was a woman, and so was I — at least until I left my government job. Back then, I was under-paid and...
Jun 1, 2018
Parting is Not Sweet Sorrow
June 2018 There are times when I must break free from the past in order to create. The impulse, or desire, has, at times, caused more...
May 29, 2018
The Artist and Society
Memorial Day 2018 I write this essay with a bit of outrage because of my training, my temperament, my talents, my interactions with...
Apr 15, 2018
Henriëtte Ronner-Knip - The Cat Lady of Painting
Spring Showers 2018 At first blush, she has the touch of detail that typifies Dutch artists. The immaculately detailed domestic settings;...
Apr 1, 2018
The Naked Spur: Beautiful Dreamer
April 2018 The first time I saw Jimmy Stewart in a Western was in The Naked Spur. It was an unforgettable experience. Stewart had...
Apr 1, 2018
The Choral Groups
April 2018 Recording Artists: The Choral Groups They did not have the swing or the swivel or the hair-sprayed sass of Girl Groups, but...
Apr 1, 2018
Happy Trails and Taking Flight
Easter April 2018 Last year, during autumn 2017, a friend commented to me that moving to a new house would really get my creative juices...
Feb 5, 2018
Home Depot Dog - His Chariot Awaits
February 2018 Home repairs and sprucing up the Homestead for sale have brought Chance to the local Home-Store often enough that the hound...
Feb 1, 2018
The Quintet - The Widower and Other Short Stories
February 2018 As best as I can remember, three of these stories were written in the space of 4 days, post mid-January 2018, during a...
Feb 1, 2018
Antigone: Anti-Heroine or Heroine?
February 2018 An-tig-o-nee: She is the protagonist, the main character of the classic play of her name, written by the ancient Greek...
Jan 8, 2018
Terry the Terrier
January 2018 My novel, THE POINT OF THE SWORD, features a little terrier called Terry. The name might seem redundant, but I hold a...
Jan 2, 2018
Book Three: Guillaume
January 2018 It feels like an early spring here in northern Northern California as I begin the translation of Book Three of THE DAWN into...
Jan 1, 2018
Victor Hugo - Les Contemplations
A New Year 2018 Victor Hugo (26 February 1802 – 22 May 1885) The great Victor Hugo is known in France as a poet first, and then as a...
Dec 25, 2017
Christmas 2017 - Mrs. Christmas: Gifts from This Writer
Christmas is the time of giving and sharing. I feel especially generous this Christmas season, and I wish to give to readers of this...
Dec 25, 2017
The Good Shepherd - Psalm 23
Christmas 2017 The Good Shepherd: Psalm 23 Briefly, I knew a sheepherder from the Basque country in Spain. He was a man of immense...
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