Like most things about this planet, the smell of a controlled burn makes you realize the sheer size of nature, the immense number of living things surrounding us, and the power of an element like fire to transform.
Continue readingMonthly Archives: November 2016
One of the things that’s always fun to include in books for me are families and their traditions, particularly since so many people have very specific and individual traditions–both at holidays and not. And then of course, the fun begins … Continue reading
See a penny I don’t believe that I am particularly superstitious. On a scale of 0 to 100, with 0 being “not in the least” and 100 the score of your average major league baseball player on a hot streak … Continue reading
by Brenda W. Clough Over at Arena Stage in Washington DC a revival of Rogers and Hammerstein’s Carousel is wowing the town. In its day this was the perfect musical theater, uniting music, book and dance. Not until West Side … Continue reading
(This is the forty-fifth installment of Dice Tales, an ongoing series of posts about RPGs as storytelling.) *** There’s another kind of game record that I think may be, if not unique to my own circle of gamers, then decidedly … Continue reading
(Picture from here.) I haven’t been talking about science much lately. Heck, from the activity in my blog here, I haven’t been talking much about anything. To be frank, trying to fill this blog has, of late, been difficult. Not … Continue reading
This series started on Oct. 15 and will continue every other Saturday. I’m taking a trip back in time to my 4-month backpacking rambles around Greece in the early 1980s, which planted the seed for my recent novel The Ariadne … Continue reading
When people ask writers “Where do you get your ideas?” – if you don’t get a growl at the question , or an answer for some value of “EVERYWHERE!”, or something pretty specific for a specific work, or some … Continue reading
Anger. There’s a lot of that out there since the election. There’s shock, too, especially out here in California where the vote was overwhelmingly for Hillary Clinton, even the white vote. And fear. With white supremacists appointed to White House … Continue reading
Bimbo, verse Two: There’s black leather on the bimbo in my book.There’s black leather on the bimbo in my book, While I’m sure she’s lot’s of fun, My heroine’s a nun Who wears black leather on the cover of my … Continue reading