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  • “Sunshine”

    Before I write this blog, some recent news. In June, Pif Magazine (online), Derek Alger, editor, will publish an extensive interview with me. A local newspaper in Green Valley also interviewed me and that will appear later in June. I will keep you apprised. The reporter grew up on the East Coast, so we understood one another, […]

  • A Lemmonade Twist

    Last night at the Vistoso Commerce loop exit on to Oracle Road, I stopped the car and put off the lights. Dozens of small fires crept down the ridges of the Catalinas. It seemed a fitting salute to the July Fourth Holiday several days away. This morning the gullies and ravines that lead down to […]

  • There’s A Haze Along The Ridge

    There’s a haze along the ridge, Pusch Ridge, as they call it after an early settler of Oro Valley. Small plumes of smoke sully the slopes for a few miles like a sulphuric mountain acne. The heat of the day compounds all this, so that the light itself seems to have been smudged by an artist’s […]

  • “Top Of The World, Ma,” Cagney in “White Heat.”

    I’ve had little time to post a blog until now. Why? Down to a Sunless Sea has won an Indie Excellence FINALIST Book Award. It it also placed as a semi-finalist for the Reader Views Literary Awards. So, I composed a pr letter and forwarded the news to reviewers, bloggers and friends. This Monday morning I was […]