A lot has happened since I moved into my crone cabin in the woods. I experienced the one highest-ever 117-degree day of summer heat in Sacramento (along with many other slightly—but only slightly—cooler days; so thank goodness for my trees). I watched the ducks, ducklings, koi, turtles and even a heron swimming, diving and flapping about the property – check […]
Hope you had a comforting Thanksgiving. Or a calmer not-Thanksgiving if it’s not your thing. This is a test post to check out whether my website subscribers have been successfully moved over to my revamped site. The test will be done by my website guru, so you don’t need to do a thing! Unless you WANT to do a thing […]
Hey, everybody’s writing reflections, so why not me?
Twenty-seven years ago, I wrote a story called “Jungle of the Heart.” It sat in a folder for about the next seventeen.
Just for fun: Here’s a Contributor’s Note I wrote in a memoir workshop recently. The assignment was to play with a creative version of what might appear in the back if we were ever to publish a book.
I recently flew cross-country to attend my high school reunion. Now is there a cooler year to be the graduating class of or WHAT?
The blog post I wrote, “Oh Dude!” has been published in the LA Times today in a column called “LA Affairs” and under the title “A dreamy dude on a dude ranch.” Personally, I liked my title better. They also made a few changes to which I prefer the original. The art work doesn’t look like me at all. And […]
