Category: Commentary

  • Is It American Seduction, Corruption Or Marketing? — You Choose

    All this needs an introduction. Nameless writes: “I am pleased to report that I have concluded arrangements to become the host of an Internet network radio interview program designed exclusively for authors, and I would like to invite any of who who would like to schedule a 15-minute interview to…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • “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…