Author: Matt

  • Catching Up With Mt. Lemmon

    I’m at poolside now, late into dusk. In the distance an immense cloud is above the Catalinas. It’s as if a big fist gave a shiner to the sky. A covey of birds, new to me, strut linearly about the pool, mother and chicks. Offbeat bird sounds punctuate the lambent…

  • Alger and Calvani Interviews

    Derek Alger, editor, Pifmagazine.com (see links) and Mayra Calvini, author, at Blogcritics.org/ have put up two interviews with me. Alger worked me on the phone and we chatted for about an hour as he endeavored to get a sense of who I was as a person and as a writer,…

  • Making Sense — The Writer’s Task And His ultimate Folly

    I have been away from blogging because I am now deeply into rewriting, rather editing, Sojourner, my historical fiction about a Chinese who ventures to California during the Gold Rush. It is a philosophical quest that he is on.  I wrote it about the age of 40, while teaching in…

  • Cinderkeys Responds

    Cinderkeys’ response to my blog about Nameless and his radio show is under comments. I am open to other commentary. I cannot go through this world looking under rocks or for hidden meanings. However, given that Nameless was in possession of a 60 word summary of my book, its cover, and…