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The Lady in the Coffee Shop
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It has become apparent to me that the philosophical turn of my mind lends itself to short and hopefully pithy little essays. About three years ago I arrived in Oro Valley, Arizona to set up a home. At that time Mt. Lemmon, a kind of woody Greenwich Village on a mount, caught on fire. As […]
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Cameras as Remembrances of Things Past : “O insupportable and touching loss!” — Shak.
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It was a Kodak Bantam camera with a lens that folded out on a rail, very charming and dainty, with little metal knobs to set the f-stops and one to set the shutter. You could put it into the palm of your hand like some inlaid treasure of inestimable value. Because it was so miniature in consequence, […]
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“Little Errands”
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On 7 April I will be giving a reading with other authors at a local branch of the Southwestern Authors society. I will read “Little Errands,” a story from Down to a Sunless Sea. A story as simple as that of a man trying to mail a letter, it becomes an act of obsessive-compulsiveness brought to […]